Top 280 A.W. Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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3. “The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”

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4. “Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”

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5. “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us.”

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6. “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.”

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

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8. “Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.”

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9. “We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”

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14. “True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”

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15. “I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.”

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16. “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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17. “One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”

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18. “Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.”

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19. “What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”

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20. “Question: What is the chief End of Man? Answer: Man’s chief End is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”

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21. “If we understand that everything happening to us is to make us more Christlike, it will solve a great deal of anxiety in our lives.”

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22. “We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.”

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23. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”

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

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

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26. “God does his deepest work in our darkest hours.”

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27. “One of the strange things about God is that He will come in as far as we allow Him. I have often said that a Christian is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. We can beg to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We can talk about it, but until we are willing to empty ourselves, we will never have the fullness of the Holy Spirit in our lives. God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.”

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28. “We must return to New Testament Christianity, not in creed only but in complete manner of life as well. Separation, obedience, humility, simplicity, gravity, self-control, modesty, cross-bearing: these all must again be made a living part of the total Christian concept and be carried out in everyday conduct.”

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29. “Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.”

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30. “The Holy Spirit is our cloud by day and our fire by night. Without Him we only wander aimlessly about the desert.”

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31. “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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32. “It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.”

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33. “The heart in which the Holy Spirit lives will always be characterized by gentleness, lowliness, quietness, meekness and forbearance.”

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34. “Let us be alert to the season in which we are living. It is the season of the Blessed Hope, calling for us to cut our ties with the world and build ourselves on this One who will soon appear. He is our hope – a Blessed Hope enabling us to rise above our times and fix our gaze upon Him.”

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35. “What made Jesus’ death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay.”

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36. “The great unseen reality is God.”

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37. “All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to worship Him for all He has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing more.”

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

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39. “It is one thing to read about being filled with the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to experience the mighty infilling of the Holy Spirit that radically changes our life to a life of adoring wonder and amazement at the things of God. Reading and experiencing are two quite different things.”

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40. “The radical element in testimony and life that once made Christians hated by the world is missing from present-day evangelicalism. Christians were once revolutionists – moral, not political – but we have lost our revolutionary character. It is no longer either dangerous or costly to be a Christian. Grace has become not free, but cheap.”

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41. “The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid – that is the paradox of faith.”

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42. “It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”

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43. “Sometimes I go to God and say, “God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.”

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44. “Some Christians have taken all the justice, judgment and hatred of sin out of the nature of God and have nothing left but a soft god. Others have taken love and grace out and have nothing left but a god of judgment. Or they have taken away the personality of God and have nothing left but a mathematical god – the god of the scientists. All these are false, inadequate conceptions of God.”

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45. “It is not by reading the Scriptures in the original languages or in some contemporary version that makes us better Christians. Rather, it is getting on our knees with the Scriptures spread before us, and allowing the Spirit of God to break our hearts. Then, when we have been thoroughly broken before God Almighty, we get up off our knees, go out into the world and proclaim the glorious message of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.”

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46. “The world lives in a time of crisis. Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were normal.”

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47. “I say, “Yes, Devil, sin is terrible – but I remind you that I got it from you! And I remind you, Devil, that everything good – forgiveness and cleansing and blessing – everything that is good I have freely received from Jesus Christ!”

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48. “Why do some persons ‘find’ God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.”

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49. “True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing.”

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50. “The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. 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. How then can you hope to have inward peace?”

— A.W. Tozer