Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Waiting, Busy, Dangerous

• The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Voice

• What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Waiting, Grace

• A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Lying, Reality

• The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

• We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Waiting, World, Resurrection

• The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Opposites, Waiting

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.41, Fig

• 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

• Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Often Can, Silence, Waiting

• 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

• In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Lying, Believe

• Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Waiting, Doe

• At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Children, Heart

• The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving Up, Men, Order

• When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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