“We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.”
More from A.W. Tozer on Faith
“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.”
“Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?”
“When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.”
“The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.”
“Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.”
“What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.”
“Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.”
“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God”
“Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
John Piper
27 quotes“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
John Calvin
21 quotes“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Joyce Meyer
14 quotes“The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.”