Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our spiritual comprehension. The One with whom we deal is the One who embodies faithfulness and truth-the One who cannot lie.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

The most important thing you think is what you think about God.