Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

I know I'm a sinner.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

I believe you know Jesus said "a doctor doesn't come to the healthy, but the sick, and it's not the righteous but the sinners that I've come for," so I think that that's the scandal of God's love and grace that no one is beyond redemption, and we can see that all through scripture, you know.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.