A.W. Tozer Quotes

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.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

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

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

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

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.

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

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

The key to prayer is simply praying.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

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

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.

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

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

Very few things in life matter.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

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.

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

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.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.