A.W. Tozer Quotes

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

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

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

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

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

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

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

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

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

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

Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

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

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

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

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

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

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

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

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.

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

The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

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

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

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

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

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

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

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