Christian Living
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Being Ourselves
“We should thank God for giving us our own individual personalities and temperaments and abilities. We should never waste time and energy trying to fashion ourselves after someone else, no matter how much we admire that person. God does not expect us to become identical copies of our spiritual heroes. Actually, I have learned something [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on the Meek Man
“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. He develops toward himself a kindly sense of humor and learns to say, ‘Oh, so you have been overlooked? They have placed someone else before you? [...]
Tozer – Choices, Deeds, and Consequences
“NOW, THERE’S A VOICE THAT’S SPEAKING TO US TONIGHT. In the Word and out of Heaven this voice speaks … and it says ’Consider’. And consider means, of course, to look at closely and to think about seriously. And all society is conspiring to prevent us from doing this. Organized human society wants us to do [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Faith
“[Faith] is summed up for us in the Hebrew epistle when we are instructed to run life’s race ‘looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.’ From all this we learn that faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Being Other-Worldly
“If we truly want to follow God we must seek to be other-worldly. This I say knowing well that that word has been used with scorn by the sons of this world and applied to the Christian as a badge of reproach. So be it. Every man must choose his world. If we who follow [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Keys to the Deeper Life
“Question: Dr. Tozer, what specific steps would you suggest for the earnest seeker after the ‘deeper life’? Tozer: I have never been much for ‘steps’ in the Christian life, though they may be useful to some people. For the most part, my method has been simply to plunge in on the promises of God and let God [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Where Are the Prophets?
“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who [...]
Be Sober-Minded; Be Watchful … But Why?
1 Peter 5:8-9 says, “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.” But if what OSAS teaches – that once a person is [...]
Practical Problems With OSAS
Note: It should be obvious from the content of the post, but the version of OSAS that I am arguing against in this post is what has been termed by some as the ‘Alpha View’. It is the view that a singular moment of faith is enough to guarantee an entrance into the eternal kingdom of [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Popular Evangelicalism
“Popular evangelicalism has been selling out to the worldly spirit and worldly methods to a point where Hollywood now has more influence than Jerusalem ever had. Youth take for their examples not the saints of old but the stars of today. The chaste dignity and sparkling purity of true Christianity has been displaced by a [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Religious Boredom
“Those Christians who belong to the evangelical wing of the Church (which I firmly believe is the only one that even approximates New Testament Christianity) have over the last half-century shown an increasing impatience with things invisible and eternal and have demanded and got a host of things visible and temporal to satisfy their fleshly [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Choices Reveal Character
“The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when he is free to go where he will. “The apostles went to jail, and that is not too revealing because they went there against their will; but when they got out of jail [...]
Quotable Quotes – Oswald Chambers on Walking the Walk as Well as Talking the Talk
“There is a danger with the children of God of getting too familiar with sublime things. We talk so much about these wonderful realities, and forget that we have to exhibit them in our lives. It is perilously possible to mistake the exposition of the truth for the truth; to run away with the idea [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Worshipers and Workers
“God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. It is inconceivable that a sovereign and holy God should be so hard up for workers that He would press into service anyone who had been empowered regardless of his moral qualification. The very stones [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Cheating and Robbing Ourselves
“Whatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be. Whatever engages my attention when I should be meditating on God and things eternal does injury to my soul. Let the cares of life crowd out the Scriptures from my mind and I have suffered loss where I can [...]
