A.W. Tozer Quotes

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

America is laughing her way to Hell.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

We must never edit God.

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Faith in faith is faith astray.

Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.