Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

God is never satisfied with anything less than all.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

Some morning, get up and allow the power of God to come on you, and allow Him to bless you.

We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.