Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

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.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.

We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

God dwells in the heart where praise is.

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

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

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.

Perfect love knows no because

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today a part of popular religion. We are at the opposite end of the pole from there. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.