Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Jesus
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My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
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Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
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When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
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God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
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God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
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Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
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The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.
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Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
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Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.
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Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!
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The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
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God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.
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Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.
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Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.
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Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.
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Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.
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The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring
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Without worship, we go about miserable.
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The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians
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We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.
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Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.
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When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.
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Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.
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Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.
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God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
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Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship.
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The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who love has for thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to His overtures.
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You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.
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God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.
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Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.
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