Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Soul
-
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
→ -
Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!
→ -
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
→ -
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
→ -
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
→ -
It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.
→ -
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
→ -
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
→ -
So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
→ -
Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
→ -
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.
→ -
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God
→ -
I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart--for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don't have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.
→ -
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
→ -
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.
→ -
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.
→ -
Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.
→ -
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.
→ -
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.
→ -
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'
→ -
The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
→ -
Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
→ -
For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.
→ -
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.
→ -
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
→ -
God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.
→ -
We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
→ -
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
→ -
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
→ -
God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.
→
Related Authors
-
George Whitefield Preacher -
John Piper Author -
Watchman Nee Author -
Andrew Murray Writer -
John F. MacArthur Pastor -
Smith Wigglesworth Evangelist -
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Minister -
-
Nancy Leigh DeMoss Author -
J. I. Packer Christian Theologian -
-
Leonard Ravenhill Author -
A. B. Simpson Author -
John Bunyan Writer -
Jonathan Edwards Preacher -
Paul Washer Sermonizer -
David Wilkerson Pastor -
Warren W. Wiersbe Writer -
Dwight L. Moody Evangelist -
Charles Spurgeon Preacher
Popular Topics
- Picnic Baskets
- Iron Lady
- Nature Of Man
- Customer Experience
- Dinner With Friends
- People You Hate
- Disney Character
- Exotic Places
- Camera Lenses
- Finding The Right Person
- Flexibility
- Intimate
- Personal Preferences
- Bygone Days
- Aspiring Writers
- Motorcycle
- Talking To Someone
- Cooties
- Old Feelings
- Dependence On God