Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Light means nothing to a blind man.

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

Acquaint thyself with God.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.

I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days!

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering.

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.