Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Were all human beings suddenly 2 become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing 2 the millions who benifit from their light. So were every man on earth 2 become atheist it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections to doubt Him takes nothing away.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts.

The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.