There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the
potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is
capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world’s
greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in
them for little besides ourselves.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
I normally do not comment on quotes from other people, but on this particular quote I have found it to be so true. Throughout the years I have found that this principle of yielding ourselves to God does in fact inspire God to reveal Himself to His people. Yielding yourself to God means repenting of your sins, seeking after God, and doing His will, yielding your will to His will for your life. We do this by our own free will, it is our decision, and I can tell you that not yielding to God has hindered my own walk with the LORD many times throughout the years.
Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.
A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)