Tozer Worship Quotes & Sayings

Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Spiritual sophistication lacks freshness and warmth; God is far away, and there is little communion and little joy in the Lord. To have a cold heart with little pity, little fire, little love and little worship is spiritual lethargy. — A.W. Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God ... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is. — 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 calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That is where we are, even in the evangelical churches, and I don't mind telling you that most of the people we say we are trying to reach will never come to a church to see a lot of amateur actors putting on a home-talent show. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man's chief End is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." With this agree the four and twenty elders who fall on their faces to worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, saying, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. — A.W. Tozer

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place. — A.W. Tozer

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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. — A.W. Tozer

God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today. — A.W. Tozer

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

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

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is why we are born and why we are born again. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nicolas Herman, who was commonly known as Brother Lawrence, was a simple dishwasher in the institution where he lived. He said he did those dishes for the glory of God. When he was through with his humble work, he would fall down flat on the floor and worship God. Whatever he was told to do, he did it for the glory of God. He testified, "I wouldn't as much as pick up a straw from the floor, but I did it for the glory of God. — A.W. Tozer

Real worship is, among other things, a feeling in the heart that is appropriately expressed. You can worship God in any manner appropriate to you by feeling in the heart and expressing that humbling but delightful sense of admiring love. Let your heart dictate your worship to the God you love, and who loves you. — A.W. Tozer

Frankly, I am quite tired of those who tout Christianity as a way to stop smoking or drinking or break wild habits of the world. Is that all Christianity is, to keep us from some bad habit? Of course, regeneration will clean us up, and the new birth will make a man right. If that is what Christianity is all about, what about the person whose life is not that bad? The purpose of God in redemption is to restore us again to the divine imperative of worship. We were created to worship, but sin destroyed that ability. Jesus Christ, on the cross, redeemed us and brought us back to the place where we now can worship and have fellowship with God Almighty. My clean life is a by-product of my conversion. My life may have pointed out to me that I needed a drastic change, but that is not the purpose for which I was converted. The essence of conversion is to bring me into a right relationship with God and have fellowship with Him. — A.W. Tozer

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that boundless confidence in His character that used to be prominent among Christians. Confidence is necessary to respect. You cannot respect a man in whom you have no confidence. Extend that respect upward to God and if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him. You cannot have confidence in Him, because where there is no respect there can be no worship. — A.W. Tozer

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must never rest until everything inside us worships God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing. — A.W. Tozer

Sometimes I go to God and say, God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me. — A.W. Tozer

We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. — A.W. Tozer

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Modern Christianity is simply not producing the kind of Christian who can appreciate or experience the life in the Spirit. The — A.W. Tozer

Without worship, we go about miserable. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to worship Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more. — A.W. Tozer

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that ... every act of my life may be an act of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. — A.W. Tozer

Worship," Tozer explained, "is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause but which we call Our Father Which Art in Heaven. — A.W. Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen. — A.W. Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry. — 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

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us. — A.W. Tozer

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

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and the servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all. If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. — A.W. Tozer

The hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all. — A.W. Tozer

God Himself, "One God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible," and "One Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God; begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father," and "the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified." Yet this holy Trinity is One God, for "we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal and the majesty co-eternal." So in part run the ancient creeds, and so the inspired Word declares. — A.W. Tozer

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems, for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him for very long; but even if the multiple burdens of time may be lifted from him, the one mighty single burden of eternity begins to press down upon him with a weight more crushing than all the woes of the world piled one upon another. That mighty burden is his obligation to God. It includes an instant and lifelong duty to love God with every power of mind and soul, to obey Him perfectly, and to worship Him acceptably. — A.W. Tozer

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker ... The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things. — A.W. Tozer

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

His supreme purpose in making man was to have somebody capable to properly and sufficiently worship Him and satisfy His own heart. — A.W. Tozer

Wherever we find Jesus is the perfect place to worship. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on. — A.W. Tozer

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

God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, "Adam, where art thou?" — 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