A.W. Tozer Quotes

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

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

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

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

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

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

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.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.

One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

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.

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.

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

You win them to what you win them with.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

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

Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

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

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.