Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

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.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

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

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

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

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

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.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

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.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

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

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.