Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

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.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.

Sermonettes make Christianettes.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

A scared world needs a fearless church.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians