Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

Oh, if we would only remember who God is!

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

The doctrine of the Trinity...is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.