Christian Writers and Preachers

The teaching of the New Testament is that God and spiritual things can be known finally only by a direct work of God within the soul. The true understanding of God must be by personal spiritual awareness. The Holy Spirit is indispensable.

—AW Tozer

Learn to pray inwardly every moment. After a while you can do this even while you work.

—AW Tozer

He cannot abandon his people because he has bound his own name and honor to them in pledge.

—Herman Bavinck

We can best repent our neglect of the Holy Spirit by neglecting Him no more. Let us begin to think of Him as One to be worshiped & obeyed. Let us throw open every door & invite Him in. Let us surrender to Him every room in the temple of our hearts & insist that He enter

—AW Tozer

He has made available to us the infinite moral power of His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will here on earth.

—AW Tozer

That Christian is a happy one who has found a company of true believers in whose heavenly fellowship he can live & love & labor.

— AW Tozer

The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity

—AW Tozer

We must get on our knees before our open Bible & allow the Holy Spirit to break our hearts & create a passion for Christ as we’ve never had

—AW Tozer

Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?

—Herman Bavinck

People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.

—Herman Bavinck

Jesus walked forth, alive!

I believe that so completely that I believe it all the time. This is not an Easter “thing” that I try to believe once a year. I believe it so fully & so completely that it is a part of my being, every moment of every day.

—AW Tozer

Much religious work is being done these days that will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public are aware of the deception.

—AW Tozer

Thus a man is worth more than the whole world.

—Herman Bavinck

The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

—Thomas Aquinas

In spite of the difficulties we encounter when we pray, prayer is a powerful and effective way to get right, stay right & stay free from error.

—AW Tozer

Many of us want nothing radical or out of the ordinary, and we want God to accommodate us at our convenience. Thus we attach a rider to every prayer, making it impossible for God to answer it.

—AW Tozer

God’s rest only means he has stopped creating new things. He is now actively working to preserve the world he fashioned.

—Herman Bavinck

God is the absolutely independent One, the perfectly sovereign One. He is dependent upon us in no single respect, but we, both as we are naturally and as we are rationally and morally, are absolutely dependent upon Him.

—Herman Bavinck

That which unites all true Christians is always more than that which separates them.

—Herman Bavinck

Intensity of prayer is no criterion of its effectiveness. A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord & yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.

—AW Tozer

All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.

—AW Tozer

The triune God produces all things in creation and new creation by His Word and Spirit. All things thus speak to us of God.

—Herman Bavinck

The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & 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.

—AW Tozer

The human soul is not a hard-baked vessel with a fixed size; it is a living thing capable of growth & expansion as it interacts with the gracious actions of the Holy Spirit.

—AW Tozer

It will take more than talk & prayer to bring revival. There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven.

—AW Tozer

We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.

We have lost the sense & the wonder of His awe-fullness, His perfection, His beauty.

Oh, I feel that we should preach it, sing it, write about it, talk about it & tell it until we have recaptured the concept of the Majesty of God!

—AW Tozer

Enlightened by the Spirit, believers gain a new knowledge of faith. Salvation that is not known and enjoyed is no salvation. God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

—Herman Bavinck

They are most to be feared who become very rich in book learning but remain unlearned as Christians.

—Herman Bavinck

God did not reveal himself, so that from his revelation we might construct a philosophical concept of God, but so that we might receive, acknowledge, and confess him, the one true, living God, as our God.

—Herman Bavinck