General Topics :: Quotes by A.W. Quotes by A.W. - posted by sermonindex (), on: 2010/7/24 17:24 "If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake." - A.W. "As we gather unto Christ, we gather unto each other,&the nearer we get to Christ, the nearer we get to each other." A.W. The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. - A.W. "The proud man can't worship God any more than the proud devil can...worship humbles you." A.W. "Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?" - A.W. "Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust." - A.W. "Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you." - A.W. "You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose." - A.W. "Our pursuit of God can be successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us." - A.W. "God gets leftovers...we tend to give Him that which we don't need instead of giving Him that which we need." - A.W. We should come to church not anticipating entertainment but expecting the high and holy manifestation of God's presence. - A.W. "It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him." - A.W. "God dwells in the heart where praise is." - A.W. "A holy man is not aware that he is holy...as soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we are not holy any more." - A.W. "There is an awful lot you do not need to know to find God. The light shines, the voice calls&the Presence is here." - A.W. "What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts." - A.W. "True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God." - A.W. "As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God." - A.W. "We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it." - A.W. "God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers." - A.W. "Let the affairs of life crowd out the Scriptures from my mind&i have suffered loss where I can least afford it." - A.W. "Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived." - A.W. Page 1/5
General Topics :: Quotes by A.W. "I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star." - A.W. "In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work." - A.W. "When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth." - A.W. "Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable." - A.W. "The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists." - A.W. "May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!" - A.W. "God is never satisfied with anything less than all." - A.W. "God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man." - A.W. "No Christian, if he is right with God, should ever need to hide anything in his life." - A.W. "Worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience." - A.W. "The key to prayer is simply praying." - A.W. "Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship." - A.W. "Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics." -A.W. "If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing." - A.W. "We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them." - A.W. "What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?" - A.W. "Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right." - A.W. "Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God s presence." - A.W. "Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher." - A.W. "Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey." - A.W. When we cease to understand the majestic nature of man, we cease to appreciate the majesty of God. - A.W. If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other, is it not proof that you are not much concerned about Him? - A.W. Outside of the will of God, there's nothing I want, and in the will of God there's nothing I fear. - A.W. "Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings." - A.W. "There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry." - A.W. Page 2/5
General Topics :: Quotes by A.W. "The degree of blessing we enjoy will correspond directly with the completeness of God's victory over us." - A.W. "God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is." - A.W. "When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies." - A.W. "The church is not a social club...we are a holy people called out of darkness to show forth the glory of almighty God." - A.W. "Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open." - A.W. "I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do... where God is indispensable to me." - A.W. "The Lord Jesus Christ died on the Cross that He might make His people worshippers of God." - A.W. "It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour." - A.W. "You carry worship inside your heart." AW "The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust." - A.W. Toz er "Our Groom (Jesus Christ) is now our identity and nothing in our past matters anymore." - A.W. "Only when we live in the name of Jesus can we truly pray in His name." - A.W. "God speaks and a hymn is the musical echo of His voice." - A.W. "No one can worship God in Spirit & Truth for long before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist." - A.W. "We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power." - A.W. "Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name." - A.W. "Let God elevate you above all external so that you can find His heart and worship Him." - A.W. "When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation." - A.W. "How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience." - A.W. "True and authentic Christianity is revealed by God; not discovered or conscripted by man." - A.W. "Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God." - A.W. T ozer "Prophets never retired, so I'm not retiring except to put on new tires to go a little faster and farther."- A.W. "Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return." - A.W. "Why do you still try to carry your cares? If you are humble and trust in God's grace, why not roll them onto Him?" - A.W. "There is no place to hide except in the blood of the Lamb." - A.W. "Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever." - A.W. Page 3/5
General Topics :: Quotes by A.W. "If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight." - A.W. "The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way." - A.W. "Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath." - A.W. Toz er "Let us not permit our sins to discourage us from believing, for God is the one who makes all things new." - A.W. "We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God." - A.W. "When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless." - A.W. T ozer "If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow." - A.W. "True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life." - A.W. "I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year." - A.W. "If all your faith depends upon a pastorâ s preaching, then you are a long way from being where God wants you to be." - A.W. "God does not use words carelessly, and He called the blood of the Lamb 'precious.'" -A.W. "Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration." - A.W. "The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross." - A.W. "A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying." - A.W. "We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does does not simply refine our sins without removing them." - A.W. "There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian." - A.W. "Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become." - A.W. "There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure." - A.W. "A true Christian never hides anything because a true Christian never needs to hide anything." - A.W. "Talking about the Holy Spirit is not the same as honoring Him in our worship." - A.W. "True worship elevates us above all the accoutrements of religion into the rarefied atmosphere of God's presence." - A. W. "God is not present in church any more than He is present in your home, factory or office." - A.W. "The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you." - A.W. "Faith has to have works or it flaps in a circle. And works have to have faith or the works are dead." - A.W. Page 4/5
General Topics :: Quotes by A.W. "The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life." - A.W. "It is not what a church believes that matters so much as what a church believes with sufficient urgency to emphasize." - A.W. "Keep sin out of your heart,walk under the blood of Christ and you can be as free as an angel who walks the streets of G od." - A.W. "Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God." - A.W. "It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably." - A.W. "Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of Go d." - A.W. "Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christia n." - A.W. Page 5/5