Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

You win them to what you win them with.

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

Brother Lawrence expressed the highest moral wisdom when he testified that if he stumbled and fell he turned at once to God and said, 'O Lord, this is what you may expect of me if You leave me to myself.' He then accepted forgiveness, thanked God, and gave himself no further concerns about the matter.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.