Top 100 A.W. Tozer Quotes
#1. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: Thy right hand has upheld me.
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#2. 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.
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#3. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.
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#4. We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.
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#6. All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
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#7. When God looks at a sinner who still loves his sin and rejects the mystery of the atonement, justice condemns him to die. When God looks at a sinner who has accepted the blood of the everlasting covenant, justice
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#8. Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
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#9. By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul.
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#10. Let him come to God in full determination to be heard. Let him insist that God accept his all, that He take things out of his heart and Himself reign there in power.
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#11. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.
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#12. One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small. This may not be wholly true, but that such a charge can be made at all is sufficient cause for serious heart searching and prayer.
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#13. Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
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#14. God does his deepest work in our darkest hours
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#15. This is the tragedy and woe of the hour
that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst
the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
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#16. As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings. I certainly do not think we should follow our feelings alone, but I believe that if there is no feeling in our hearts, then we are dead.
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#17. If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Pulled out of the mud of your own ego, so that you have stopped thinking that you are somebody, at last you are delivered from yourself and are seeking God for Himself alone.
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#20. As gold is an element in itself and can never change nor compromise but is gold wherever it is found, so God is God, always, only, fully God, and can never be other than He is.
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#21. To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.
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#22. Any man who by repentance and a sincere return to God will break himself out of the mold in which he has been held, and will go to the Bible itself for his spiritual standards, will be delighted with what he finds there.
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#23. We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message.
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#24. God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
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#25. How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers.
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#26. Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.
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#27. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,
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#28. Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.
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#29. God being Who and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full lordship on His part and complete submission on ours.
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#30. The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word.
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#31. The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
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#32. Let us start reading our Bibles with the thought that God means exactly what He says.
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#33. Nothing on the outside compares to Thy presence on my inside.
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#34. Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
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#35. Return ye children of men was the word spoken at the Fall by which God decreed the death of every man, and no added word has He needed to speak. The sad procession of mankind across the face of the earth from birth to the grave is proof that His original Word was enough.
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#36. THE MAN WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONVINCED that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
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#37. The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.
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#38. The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members.
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#39. God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
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#40. True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith.
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#41. What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.
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#42. I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion ... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
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#43. Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.
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#45. The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
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#46. The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
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#47. We have too many dry preachers in the world now. We have so many dry preachers and so many men who never shed a tear. If you can keep the tears of God on you and can keep your heart tender, keep it! You have a treasure you should never give up.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Lord, may I also talk "too much" about You. May I keep You first in everything I do, think or say today. Enable me by Your Spirit, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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#50. Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.
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#51. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.
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#52. Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet real and it may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
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#53. Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal.
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#54. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. The
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#55. The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing.
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#56. What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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#57. For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.
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#58. 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.
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#59. We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
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#60. It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us.
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#61. With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
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#62. Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
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#63. Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.
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#64. Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ and they have not been saved.
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#65. Many are guilty of merely 'nibbling' at the truth of the Christian Gospel.
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#66. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.
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#67. That God is the sum of all created things. Nature and God are one, so that whoever touches a leaf or a stone touches God. That is of course to degrade the glory of the incorruptible Deity and, in an effort to make all things divine, banish all divinity from the world entirely.
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#68. If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
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#69. Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
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#70. If you trace effect back to cause and that cause back to another cause and so on, back through the long dim corridors of the past until you come to the primordial atom out of which all things were made, you will find the One who made them - you'll find God.
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#71. To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
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#72. Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
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#73. Writers are b*tc*ing about 140 characters. If you can't make a point in two sentences, how good is that book of yours really going to be?
Taken from Twitter Titters Volume 1 edited by John Rice
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#74. Those who have truly seen Christ in His glory have eyes for nothing else.
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#75. When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
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#76. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.
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#77. God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today.
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#78. The soul has eyes with which to see and ears with which to hear. Feeble they may be from long disuse, but by the life-giving touch of Christ alive now and capable of sharpest sight and most sensitive hearing.
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#79. To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
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#80. Just now we happen to be living in a secular age. Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore. "It thundered," we exclaim, and go our earthly way.
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#81. The cross is the suffering the Christian endures as a consequence of his following Christ in perfect obedience. Christ chose the cross by choosing the path that led to it; and it is so with His followers. In the way of obedience stands the cross, and we take the cross when we enter that way.
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#82. Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name; Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love's reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, And gaze and gaze on Thee!
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#83. It is God which worketh in you. He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone.
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#84. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace.
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#85. Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully.
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#86. You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is
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#87. We would dwell with Thee in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter Thy heaven to dwell with Thee there.
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#88. Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.
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#89. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
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#90. When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.
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#91. Thus we dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit himself.
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#92. [D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages.
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#93. One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
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#94. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.
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#95. Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark, no matter how scriptural it may appear to be
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#96. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering.
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#97. I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions.
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#98. Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective, the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things. This is the condition of vast numbers of Christians today.
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#99. In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
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#100. Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
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