A.W. Tozer Quotes

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

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.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

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

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

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

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

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

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

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

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

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

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

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

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

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.

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

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

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