Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself - how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind, and our eyes need the touch of our Lord's hand to enable us at times to even see dimly.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit