Will Huff > Will's Quotes

“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.”
― A.W. Tozer

“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 I don't want any.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
― A. W. Tozer

“Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”
― A.W. Tozer

“What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”
― A. W. Tozer

“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.”
― Samuel Zwemer

“I love to live on the brink of eternity.”
― David Brainerd

“I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God”
― David Brainerd

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
― John Piper

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
― John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting And Prayer

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide

“It is better to lose your life than to waste it.”
― John Piper

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.”
― John Piper

“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”
― John Piper, Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure

“All heroes are shadows of Christ”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”
― John Piper, Finally Alive

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

“We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. ”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream