Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.

I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.

Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.

We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.