Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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.

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.

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.