Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

It is God who works in and through us, if only we would let God do His work.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

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

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

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.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

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

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.

God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.

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.

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

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

Worshipers never leave church ... we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

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.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God ... Our religion is weak because our God is weak ... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

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.

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

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit ...

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.

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

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

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

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.

The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

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

I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you

Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

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

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

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.

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.

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

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

To desire revival ... and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

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

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

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

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

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.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians

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

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.

We must do something about the cross, and there's only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

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.

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

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world.' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.

You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

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.

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

He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.

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

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come ... this is not the end.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all, he finds his own highest honor upheld.