Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his accomplishments, he received honorary doctorates from Wheaton and Houghton Colleges. These A W Tozer quotes will motivate you.
Best A W Tozer Quotes
- “People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to ‘accept’ Christ without forsaking the world.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “A scared world needs a fearless church.” ~ 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.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Some people’s lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “What’s closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you’ll talk about Him.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Faith is not a conclusion you reach…it’s a journey you live.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer, A W Tozer quotes on worship
- “Retire from the world each day to some private spot. 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. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward Voice till you learn to recognize it.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “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!” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“God’s Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “I don’t want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer, A W Tozer quotes on holy spirit
- “The purpose of good works isn’t to change us or save us; rather, it’s the demonstration of the change within us.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “We should discipline ourselves to read the Word until it comes alive…until we can almost feel the breath of God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “In every Christian’s Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man’s soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a Caesar, but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense. How horrible to contemplate a church full of persons who have been pardoned but who still love sin and hate the ways of righteousness. And how much more horrible to think of heaven as filled with sinners who had not repented nor changed their way of living.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Most Christians don’t hear God’s voice because we’ve already decided we aren’t going to do what He says.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “To be entirely safe from the devil’s snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Compare yourself only with Jesus.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “His words are the essence of truth…Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is…No.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “God doesn’t work through us because we’re flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Worshipers never leave church…we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer, A W Tozer quotes on church
- “Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God’s presence.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer, A W Tozer quotes on holiness
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“When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you’ve been in God’s plan.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Listen to no man who has not listened to God.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer