Top 100 A W Tozer Quotes
#1. God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves. - A.W. TOZER
R. Mark Dillon
#2. If you will not worship God seven days a week," said A. W. Tozer, "you do not worship Him on one day a week.
Donald S. Whitney
#3. However brightly the light may shine, it can be seen only by those who are spiritually prepared to receive it. 'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.'" - A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy 8
Richard J. Foster
#4. A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1
Richard J. Foster
#5. To still seek God after discovering Him may be a love paradox of the soul, as A.W. Tozer reminds us; but to earnestly continue to perceive God and make Him perceivable, is the quintessence of worship.
Tristan Sherwin
#6. A. W. Tozer says, "A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.
Charles R. Swindoll
#7. Everything in the universe is good to the degree it conforms to the nature of God and evil as it fails to do so. - A.W. Tozer
John Bevere
#8. The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER
Randy Alcorn
#9. A. W. Tozer once said, "Eternity won't be long enough to discover all that God is or praise him for all that he's done."6
Mark Batterson
#10. To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3
William P. Farley
#11. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
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#12. Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.
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#13. 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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#14. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.
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#15. Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.
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#16. 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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#17. To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
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#18. 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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#19. Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
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#20. 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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#21. Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
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#23. All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
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#24. 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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#26. [Sadly] the first thing we tell our young converts, the babes in Christ, is, 'Here is a handful of tracts- now get out and get busy!
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live.
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#31. Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.
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#33. Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
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#34. We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.
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#35. When I come before Him, however, I need to put away everything, quiet my heart in silence, and allow the Holy Spirit to create the focus at that moment and let His presence fill me with wonder and awe. Through
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#36. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.
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#37. I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months
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#38. Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3).
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#39. I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.
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#40. The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is.
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#41. We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts. The opposite is true. We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One.
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#42. But first of all we must will, for the will is master of the heart.
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#43. The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith.
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#44. Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
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#45. Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
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#46. Body and mind and life and heart, taking the whole personality over, gently, but directly and bluntly, and making it His, so that we may become a habitation of God through the Spirit.
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#47. An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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#48. 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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#49. Anyone who might feel reluctant to surrender his will to the will of another should remember Jesus' words, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin.
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#50. If we truly want to follow God, we must seek to be otherworldly.
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#51. The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.
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#52. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
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#53. Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
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#54. 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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#55. Surely the LORD is in this place, and I knew it not. Jacob had never been for one small division of a moment outside the circle of that all-pervading presence. But he knew it not.
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#56. God does his deepest work in our darkest hours
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#57. He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
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#58. I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
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#59. 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.
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#60. can result in a resurrection of life for many souls and a recapture of that radiant wonder which should accompany faith in Christ, that wonder which has all but fled the Church of God in our day.
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#61. We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
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#62. What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
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#63. The world wants the church to add a dainty spiritual touch to its carnal schemes, and to be there to help it to its feet and put it to bed when it comes home drunk with fleshly pleasures.
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#64. Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.
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#65. 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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#66. To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well.
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#67. Pardon without penitence is a delusion which simple honesty requires that we expose for what it is.
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#68. 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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#69. But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.
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#70. the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar of
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#71. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.
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#72. Allowing yourself to be put in such a position that God is exalted is the goal of living the crucified life. When you allow God to be exalted in your difficulties, you will be in the perfect position to smell the sweet fragrance of His presence.
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#73. 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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#74. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them
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#78. Highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man, the fire must glow, or his love is not the true love of God. The great ones of the kingdom have been those who loved God more than others did.
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#79. 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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#80. The truth is that the Man who walked among us was a demonstration, not of unveiled deity, but of perfect humanity.
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#81. What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay.
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#82. We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
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#83. To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual.
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#84. 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. Then if we will we may draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts.
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#85. Water may change from liquid to vapor and still be fundamentally the same. So powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
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#86. He is indivisible from the Father and the Son, so that if you were to be suddenly transferred to heaven itself you wouldn't be any closer to God than you are now, for God is already here.
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#87. 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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#88. Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.
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#89. There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action.
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#90. The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
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#91. When He returns is not as important as the fact that we are ready for Him when He does return.
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#92. 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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#93. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.
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#94. And so, God, in no hurry whatsoever, painstakingly chips away, removing everything that is not part of the image of Christ. He takes the initiative to interrupt our lives for the higher cost of developing us into spiritually mature believers.
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#95. We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message.
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#96. Those who are twice-born crystallize around the Person of Christ and cluster together in companies, while the once-born are held together only by the ties of nature, aided by the ties of race or by common political and social interests.
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#97. When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself.
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#98. The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
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#99. God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
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#100. Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.
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