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Religion Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer
- Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is…
- The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that…
- Now, brethren, this is one of our greatest faults in our Christian lives. We are allowing too many rivals of God. We actually have too…
- When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
- The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any…
- What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the…
- I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole…
- Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
- Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external…
- We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of…
- Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
- Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He…
- When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents…
- I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our…
- The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees…
- What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.
- To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place.…
- I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or…
- What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
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- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi