Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

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.

I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?

Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.

A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.

When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not."