As I shared back in a devotion in January 2022, Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897—1963) was an American pastor and author who is perhaps one of the most quoted Christian authors of the twentieth century. Below are another series of his well-known quotations that emphasize the need to draw close to God and to live a holy life. I pray his quotes may help you draw nearer to our Lord.1
“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”
“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.”
“He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.”
“We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.”
“For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I cannot have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.”
“God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.”
“If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.”
“The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God’s victory over him.”
“In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.”
“Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.”
“What God made, God loves, because it’s inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn’t love.”
“The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid – that is the paradox of faith.”
“Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.”
“With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.”
“When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.”
“One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.”
“Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.”
“We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety. This is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.”
“To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the “program.”
“Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.”
“The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.”
“One of the strange things about God is that He will come in as far as we allow Him. I have often said that a Christian is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. We can beg to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We can talk about it, but until we are willing to empty ourselves, we will never have the fullness of the Holy Spirit in our lives. God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.”
“Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore.”
1 All of these quotes are from the website below:
So, there’s an old saying, I’m not sure who authored it but it says ” to those who believe no explanation is necessary and to those who do not believe, no explanation is possible”. The circumstances of one’s conversion to Christ is not based on natural causes but strictly by the conviction of the Holy Spirit ( John 16:8). God bless.