Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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

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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

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Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

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The doctrine of the Trinity...is truth for the heart. The fact that it can not be satisfactorily explained, instead of being against it, is in its favor. Such a truth had to be revealed; no one could imagine it.

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Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

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The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

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There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

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The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

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Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us....

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The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems...

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Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

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Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

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Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

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We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

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There cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide.

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What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

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All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

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

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To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.

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Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

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Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

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

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Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.

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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.

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For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

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When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

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

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We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

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As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

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