Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.

I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Compare yourself only with Jesus.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.