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A. W. Tozer

b: La Jose, Pennsylvania, USA, Apr 21, 1897

d: , May 12, 1963

Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees.

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A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

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

Contentment with earthly goods is the mark of a saint; contentment with our spiritual state is a mark of inward blindness.

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God... a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience....

I believe it might be accepted as a fairly reliable rule of thumb that the man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader.

I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I cannot have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

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

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.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]

Let God be true but every man a liar is the language of true faith.

Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

Let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average.

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.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

No matter what a man does, no matter how successful he seems to be in any field, if the Holy Spirit is not the chief energizer of his activity, it will all fall apart when he dies.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

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.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

Stand against that which is wrong, show why it is wrong, overcome it and plant truth in its place.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are not worthy of Him.

The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life. That book serves best which early makes itself unnecessary, just as a signpost serves best after it is forgotten, after the traveler has arrived safely at his desired haven.

The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never learn any other way: they tell us what we are, who we are, how we got here, why we are here, and what we are required to do while we remain here.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

The truth is that God always answers the prayer that accords with His will as revealed in the Scriptures, provided the one who prays is obedient and trustful. Further than this we dare not go.

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

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

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.

Things are for us not only what they are; they are what we hold them to be. Which is to say that our attitude toward things is more likely in the long run to be more important than the things themselves.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

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.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We must face today as children of tomorrow. We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come. To the pure in heart nothing really bad can happen... not death but sin should be our great fear.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

What we believe about God is the most important thing about us.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.

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

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