He who has been smitten with the love of God & the wonder of the cross can never again be tolerant in things that touch his soul & the souls of his fellow men. He will live beside, be patient with, minister to, pray for & love anyone, but never will he compromise the truth
—Tozer
To restore the beauty of God’s world, God sent the Redeemer to put all things back to its creative purpose.
—AW Tozer
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
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
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
—Thomas Aquinas
God’s rest only means he has stopped creating new things. He is now actively working to preserve the world he fashioned.
—Herman Bavinck
All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.
—AW Tozer
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
—Marcus Aurelius
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 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 is a great thing to know your vices.
—Cicero
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
—Marcus Aurelius
The Holy Spirit is the true conservator of orthodoxy & will invariably say the same thing to meek & trusting souls.
—AW Tozer
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
—Cicero
The Kingdom of God will include everything in heaven and on earth. By the blood of the cross, Christ has reconciled all things to himself and thus to each other (Col. 1:20). Under him as the Head, everything will be gathered into one and recapitulated in him (Eph. 1:10).
—Herman Bavinck
It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
—Marcus Aurelius
There is so much narrow-mindedness, so much pettiness among us, and the worst thing is that this is regarded as piety.
—Herman Bavinck
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
—Marcus Aurelius
To acquire knowledge, Scripture refers man not to his own reason but to God’s revelation in all his works. Lift up your eyes, and see the one who has created all things; [lift them up] to the teaching and the testimony; otherwise, they shall perish.
—Herman Bavinck
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein
Was very fearful lest I should admit some vain thought, and so lose the sense I then had of divine things. O for an abiding heavenly temper!
—David Brainerd
God has made me willing to do any thing that I can do, consistent with truth, for the sake of peace, and that I might not be a stumbling-block to others.
—David Brainerd
I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervour in the things of God. O that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervour!
—David Brainerd
Enjoyed some sweetness in things divine, in the midst of my pain and weakness. O that I could praise the Lord!
—David Brainerd
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton
I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh, that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
—David Brainerd
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
—René Descartes
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
—David Brainerd
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
—Isaac Newton