Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

That's God's number one purpose, to make us like Christ.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.

The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

There are no unsavable souls.

All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.