Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

I know that whatever God does is for my betterment.

Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

God measures out affliction to our need.

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.