Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as it was applicable in one's own particular circumstance. Not in an idiotic sense -- it doesn't mean that every Christian should grow a beard, or be a bachelor, or become a travelling preacher. It means that every single act and feeling, every experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, must be referred to God.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?

The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.