Top 100 Tozer's 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. It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much ...
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3. To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
A.W. Tozer
#4. A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
A.W. Tozer
#5. History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#6. God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy.
A.W. Tozer
#8. The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#9. As all man's work is done by his mind, so the work of the Church is done by the Spirit, and by Him alone.
A.W. Tozer
#10. God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve is summed up in what they could do for God that nothing else in the whole creation could do. They had an exclusive on God shared by no other of God's creation.
A.W. Tozer
#11. God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#12. 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!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#13. Religion can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#14. Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#15. You know, it's awfully hard to get a Christian scared. It's hard to get him panicked if he really believes in God. If he's just a church member, you can get him panicked. But if he really believes in God it's very difficult to do it.
A.W. Tozer
#16. If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#17. Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender.
A.W. Tozer
#18. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#19. Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#20. Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
A.W. Tozer
#21. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#22. Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#23. 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
#24. A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. It will be a great moment for some of us when we begin to believe that God's promise of self-revelation is literally true: that He promised much, but promised no more than He intends to fulfill.
A.W. Tozer
#26. Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#27. The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there's another world to come.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#28. In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#29. Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#30. When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
A.W. Tozer
#31. To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#32. It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#35. I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#36. After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#37. We must do something about the cross, and there's only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#38. That anonymous coward is probably forty years old with raging BO and still living in his mum's granny flat
Gabrielle Tozer
#39. I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#40. If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#41. True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#42. Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.
A.W. Tozer
#44. A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#45. What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#47. We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#48. 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!
A.W. Tozer
#49. Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God's presence.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#50. Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.
A.W. Tozer
#51. The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#53. Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#54. Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#55. The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth.
Gabrielle Tozer
#56. The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#57. It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#58. The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#59. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#63. If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#64. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#65. It. It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man's ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and Presence of God Himself. These come to us through Christian doctrine, but they are more than doctrine. Christian truth is designed to lead us to God, not to serve as a substitute for God.
A.W. Tozer
#66. When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#67. God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#70. God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#71. Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
A.W. Tozer
#77. Most Christians don't hear God's voice because we've already decided we aren't going to do what He says.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#78. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
A.W. Tozer
#79. God's voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. 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
A.W. Tozer
#81. Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#82. 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
#83. It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#86. God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#87. The Cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love that conceived the Cross.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#88. O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.
A.W. Tozer
#89. The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#91. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#92. The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.
A.W. Tozer
#95. The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us, put into our familiar human words.
A.W. Tozer
#96. If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#97. 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.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#98. The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
A.W. Tozer
#99. 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
#100. Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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