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A.W. Tozer Quotes

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

A.W. Tozer

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Tags: christians, church, commitment, honesty, hypocricy, lies, lying, sincerity, truth

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

A.W. Tozer

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

Tags: arminianism, calvinism, christianity, free will, god s sovereignty, moral freedom

About Author
Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his accomplishments, he received honorary doctorates from Wheaton and Houghton colleges.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

A.W. Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Tags: carpe diem, time, wasted time

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

A.W. Tozer

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

Tags: pain

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

A.W. Tozer

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

Tags: authority, bored, earth, god, heaven, man, woman, word of god, worship

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our char...

A.W. Tozer

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our char...

Tags: character, suffering, testing

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

A.W. Tozer

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Tags: god, importance, important, minds, religion, the truth, truth

What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.

A.W. Tozer

What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.

Tags: culture, relevance

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human...

A.W. Tozer

Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human...

Tags: christian, christianity, suffering

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient...

A.W. Tozer

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient...

Tags: chrisitianity, christian, god, home

Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

A.W. Tozer

Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

Tags: prayer, spiritual direction, theology

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

A.W. Tozer

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

Tags: god, know

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

A.W. Tozer

Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

Tags: faith

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

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The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Tags: existence, fact, god

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

A.W. Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Tags: faith, hope, life, thankfulness, virtue

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

A.W. Tozer

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Tags: a w tozer, sin, tozer, tragedy, waste, waste of life

Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone,...

A.W. Tozer

Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone,...

Tags: peace, vexation

The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on liv...

A.W. Tozer

The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on liv...

Tags: faith, holy spirit

He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and bereaved His mother that He might heal all bereavement. He came and lost every...

A.W. Tozer

He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and bereaved His mother that He might heal all bereavement. He came and lost every...

Tags: christianity, god, jesus

In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplo...

A.W. Tozer

In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplo...

Tags: change, faith, redemption, transformation