Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

Aiden Wilson 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
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure, although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

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

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing Christ and the world.... The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself—a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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.

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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.

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

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer