Tozer Prayer Quotes

#1. It's not my business to try and make God think like me ... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#2. Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

Kenneth Grahame

#3. All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

Eric Clapton

#5. While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#7. Be amazing, because you are.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#8. Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

William Jennings Bryan

#9. The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#10. Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#12. The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#13. Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#14. Forgiveness, cleansing, regeneration, the Holy Spirit, all answers to prayer, are given to faith and received by faith. There is no other way. This is common evangelical doctrine and is accepted wherever the cross of Christ is understood.

A.W. Tozer

#15. To desire revival ... and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

B.o.B

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#20. A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#21. Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him.

A.W. Tozer

#22. Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#23. Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#24. If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through.

A.W. Tozer

#25. Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

A.W. Tozer

#26. Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#28. When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.

George R R Martin

#29. 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.

A.W. Tozer

#30. [Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#31. When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#32. The key to prayer is simply praying.

Aiden Wilson Tozer