Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Prayer doesn't bend God's arm but it's guaranteed to bend our hearts toward His will. Worry less. Pray more.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.

The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.