Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

You can't serve God and money.

Nothing is easier than sinning.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.