Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Prophet

Quotes about: Prophet

• The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Humility, Men

• What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Past, Religion, Today

• The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Hard Life, Church

• We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sports, Thinking, Agents

• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Diplomats, Messages, Compromise

• Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Eye, Sea

• A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Voice, People

• I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jobs, Reading, Prophet

• Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Guarantees, Inspired

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.55, Fig

• Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Kings, Lord

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