Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

• With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, Welfare, Goodness

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.70, Fig

• And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Home, Humility

• O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Long, Giving, Grace

• God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Law, Space, Evil

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.62, Fig

• The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, Purpose, Gift From God

• The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Moving, Destiny, Men

• When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, Spirit, Holy

• One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

• Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Past, Night

• To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

• A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Leader, Desire, Inward

• If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Pride, Men, Honor

• A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Leader, Desire, Heritage

• May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, May, Grants

• God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Forgiving, Desire, Sin

• Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Long, People

• The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Blessed, Average

• A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humble, Sacrifice, Men

• God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Men, Soul

• Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Thinking, Feet

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