Top 100 Tozer Quotes
#1. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#2. 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
#3. As Tozer expressed it, Human nature, as we know it, is in a formative state. It is being changed into the image of the thing it loves.
Anonymous
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1
Richard J. Foster
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. As Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "it is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.
Michael Zigarelli
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3
William P. Farley
#14. Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world.
Randy Alcorn
#15. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
A.W. Tozer
#16. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#18. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#19. Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#23. One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#24. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#26. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#27. I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#28. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#29. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#30. Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#31. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#32. Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#34. Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
A.W. Tozer
#35. We are here to affirm, not to deny ... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#36. Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#39. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#40. Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#41. We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him.
A.W. Tozer
#42. Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
A.W. Tozer
#45. God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
A.W. Tozer
#47. God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#48. 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
A.W. Tozer
#50. The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#51. We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#53. [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!
A.W. Tozer
#55. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#56. Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#58. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#60. Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today ... the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#61. Keep your heart with all diligence and God will take care of the universe.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#62. Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#63. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#64. Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#66. Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live.
A.W. Tozer
#67. God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#68. Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.
A.W. Tozer
#70. Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
A.W. Tozer
#71. When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#72. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#73. Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#74. 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
A.W. Tozer
#75. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.
A.W. Tozer
#77. God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#78. Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#79. When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. 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
A.W. Tozer
#81. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#82. The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#83. The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#86. 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.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#87. If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3).
A.W. Tozer
#89. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#90. The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#91. Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#92. When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#95. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#96. We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#97. The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#98. But first of all we must will, for the will is master of the heart.
A.W. Tozer
#99. 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.
A.W. Tozer
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