Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

If you have believed but not obeyed, you have postponed your Christian life.

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.