Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes & Sayings

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were
He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious blessing of becoming. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

All great Christians have been wounded souls. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance ... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel superior because I have had a remarkable vision or an advanced spiritual experience, I should go at once to my knees and repent of the whole thing. I have fallen victim to the enemy. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You are a mirror of the Almighty ... this is the reason you were created ... your purpose. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc ... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

God's plan will continue on God's schedule. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure? — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble
we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!
... Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical
church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage ... we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians — Aiden Wilson Tozer

God is more concerned with the state of people's hearts than He is with the state of their feelings. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be. — Aiden Wilson Tozer