A.W. Tozer Quotes

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

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

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.

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

Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.

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

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

You have been forgiven, so act like it!

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

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

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?

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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

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

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.

Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

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

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

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

God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust

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

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

Compare yourself only with Jesus.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

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

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.

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.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

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.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

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

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

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

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?