The Dangers of a Shallow Faith Quotes

“It is not by reading the Scriptures in the original languages or in some contemporary version that makes us better Christians. Rather, it is getting on our knees with the Scriptures spread before us, and allowing the Spirit of God to break our hearts. Then, when we have been thoroughly broken before God Almighty, we get up off our knees, go out into the world and proclaim the glorious message of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“We are not worshiping God on the throne but have come to the point of worshiping the shadow of the throne.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself “up to speed” with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer’s thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“When a man rises and says, “I believe the Bible” and then ignores the teachings of the Bible on his own pet subjects, he is rejecting the Word more insidiously than outright disbelief.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“The true Christian has an insatiable appetite for Christ and the things of Christ, while the world has no such appetite.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk. It is only out of the silence that the Word speaks.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“Some Christians have taken all the justice, judgment and hatred of sin out of the nature of God and have nothing left but a soft god. Others have taken love and grace out and have nothing left but a god of judgment. Or they have taken away the personality of God and have nothing left but a mathematical god—the god of the scientists. All these are false, inadequate conceptions of God.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“So, my Christian friend, if you are settling back, snuggling into your foam rubber chair and resting in your faith in John 3:16 and the fact that you have accepted Jesus Christ, you had better watch yourself. Take heed, lest you also be found wanting. Take heed of your own heart, lest when all is said and done, you have become tied in with the world.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“I want to emphasize and lay upon your conscience to practice anticipatory prayer, because battles are lost before they are fought.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“I am but a man of dust and ashes, a man with all the natural faults and passions that plague the race of men. I pray Thee therefore, my Lord and Redeemer, save me from myself and from all the injuries I may do myself while trying to be a blessing to others. Fill me with thy power by”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“We are constantly being fed harmful ideas that we adopt and learn to believe in, thinking they are all right, and so we ignorantly follow. This is done without our knowing that a keen, sharp, unscrupulous mind is seeking to control us.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“The Early Church was in wonderment at Christ. He dazzled them and stirred within such feelings of amazement that they could never get over Christ. All they talked about was Christ. All they thought about, from morning to night, was Christ. Christ was their only reason for living, and they were more than willing to die for Him.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“My heart has no desire to stay Where doubts arise and fears dismay; Though some may dwell where these abound, My prayer, my aim, is higher ground.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“When a man rises and says, “I believe the Bible” and then ignores the teachings of the Bible on his own pet subjects, he is rejecting the Word more insidiously than outright disbelief”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“I would like to live long enough to watch this develop and see how things turn out. I would like to live to see the time when the men and women of God—holy, separated and spiritually enlightened—walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish waters of worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“As the Church stands now, the man who sees this condition of worldly evangelicalism is written off as being somewhat fanatical. But the day is coming when the house will be left desolate and there will not be a man of God left among them.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Holy Spirit will desert worldly evangelicalism, one by one. The house will be left desolate and there will not be a man of God, a man in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, left among them.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“It is amazing to me how divided is the evangelical church in America, which reminds me of my mother’s old-fashioned apple pie. No matter how thin you slice the pie, every slice believes it is better than the rest of the pie. Even though the “pie” includes the same ingredients, goes through the same process and bakes in the same oven, each piece feels superior to the other piece.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“A discouraged heart always exaggerates everything. Do not trust a discouraged spirit, for it will never give you the true picture of you or your situation.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame and I choose it above all things on earth or in heaven. Though I am chosen of Thee and honored by a high and holy calling, let me never forget that I am but a man of dust and ashes, a man with all the natural faults and passions that plague the race of men. I pray Thee therefore, my Lord and Redeemer, save me from myself and from all the injuries I may do myself while trying to be a blessing to others. Fill me with thy power by the Holy Spirit, and I will go in Thy strength and tell of Thy righteousness, even Thine only. I will spread abroad the message of redeeming love while my normal powers endure.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“We do not look back in order to go back. Rather, we look back so that we can make sure we are going forward in the right direction.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“Then there is the effective dissemination of ideas from radio, television, film, magazines, books and the Internet.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“No miramos atrás con objeto de volver atrás. No, miramos atrás para asegurarnos de que seguimos avanzando en la dirección correcta.”
― A.W. Tozer, Los peligros de la fe superficial

“Spiritual sophistication lacks freshness and warmth; God is far away, and there is little communion and little joy in the Lord. To have a cold heart with little pity, little fire, little love and little worship is spiritual lethargy.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“The Bible has no compromise whatsoever with the world. The Bible has a message for the evangelical church, calling it back home. The Bible always sends us out into the world, but never to compromise with the world; and never to walk in the way of the world, but only to save as many as we can. That is the one direction.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

“Boredom with religion is conceivable, but being bored with God is not. Those who have encountered God and His mighty, awesome presence could never come to the point of boredom. Religion, however, with all of its tiresome dos and don’ts, sets us up for such boredom. Anyone who tries to follow his religion religiously experiences great moments of boredom in the minutia.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy