Quotes by A.W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer (1897–1963) — Pastor, Autor · Christian and Missionary Alliance · USA
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) war ein US-amerikanischer Pastor und Publizist der Christian and Missionary Alliance, der vor allem in Chicago und Toronto wirkte. Seine Schriften betonen die persönliche Ehrfurcht vor Gottes Heiligkeit, eine innige Gebetspraxis und eine scharfe Kritik an kirchlicher Oberflächlichkeit. Heutigen Bibellesern dient er als Mahner zu geistlicher Tiefe, wenngleich Biografen auf die gravierende Vernachlässigung seiner Familie infolge seines asketischen Arbeitspensums hinweisen.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Growth & Character, Church & Congregation, Humility & Pride, Freedom & Truth, Prayer & Silence
Quotes by A.W. Tozer
The devil is a better theologian than any of us, and he is still a devil.
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Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.
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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.
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One hundred religious people knitted together with great precision into a perfect organization do not constitute a Church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requirement is that life exists, always.
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Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
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With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack?
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Many have great knowledge but little virtue; and others speak much of God, though they rarely speak with him.
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Most Christians speak of God as one speaks of a dear absent person, rarely as of someone present. But the biggest problem is that they do not speak with him.
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One winsome, attractive saint is worth more than 500 advertising experts and Christian go-getters and religious engineers.
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We have almost forgotten that God is a person, and that we can therefore cultivate a relationship with him just as with any other person.
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A Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
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An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
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Boasting is an evidence that we are pleased with self; belittling, that we are disappointed in it. Either way, we reveal that we have a high opinion of ourselves.
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The Bible was written in tears, and to those who weep it will reveal its best treasures.
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The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when he is free to go where he will.
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The best way to keep the enemy out is to keep Christ at the center.
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The faith of Christ does not run parallel to the world; it crosses it at right angles.
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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?"
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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.
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It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.
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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.
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The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything – we have all the rest.
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The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
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Were all human beings suddenly to become blind, still the sun would shine by day and the stars by night, for these owe nothing to the millions who benefit from their light. So, were every man on earth to become an atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections; to doubt Him takes nothing away.
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We’re here to be worshippers 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.
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Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh… Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
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Faith does not rest upon promises alone, but is founded upon the character of the One who made those promises.
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Modern religion focuses on filling the church with people. The true gospel emphasizes filling people with God.
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God offers life to man, but He does not offer an improvement of his old life.
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The Christian cannot be happy and victorious in the true freedom of the children of God if he still trembles over his past sins.
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True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it.
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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
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Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
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Only a disciple can make a disciple.
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Don’t come down here to cry about it, go home and live it!
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Retire from the world each day to some private spot, even if it be only the bedroom (for a while I retreated to the furnace room for want of a better place). Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God’s presence envelops you… Listen for the inward Voice till you learn to recognize it. Stop trying to compete with others. Give yourself to God and then be what and who you are without regard to what others think… Learn to pray inwardly every moment. After a while you can do this even while you work… Read less, but more of what is important to your inner life. Never let your mind remain scattered for very long. Call home your roving thoughts. Gaze on Christ with the eyes of your soul. Practice spiritual concentration. All the above is contingent upon a right relation to God through Christ and daily meditation on the Scriptures. Lacking these, nothing will help us; granted these, the discipline recommended will go far to neutralize the evil effects of externalism to make us acquainted with God and our own souls.
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Two things I ask of You, O God: Truth and Happiness. But if I cannot have both here on earth, then give me Truth, for I will have all eternity to be happy in heaven.
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If you are not worshipping God on Monday the way you did the day before, perhaps you are not worshipping Him at all.
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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
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