Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.

God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

It is unbiblical and arrogant to try to worship God for any other reason than the pleasure to be had in Him.

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…, that makes you a schizophrenic.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

I just want to give my love to God.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

I want to dedicate the rest of my life to spreading the love of Christ. Because God has done so much for me and has given me this platform to speak into millions of lives, I feel it is my duty...

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.