Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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2. “A scared world needs a fearless church.”

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3. “When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.”

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4. “Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.”

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5. “God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.”

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6. “Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day – when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”

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7. “Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.”

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8. “I don’t want the world to define God for me. I want the Holy Spirit to reveal God to me.”

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9. “Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.”

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10. “If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.”

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11. “A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.”

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12. “Trust God in the dark until the light returns.”

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13. “The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God.”

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14. “If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.”

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15. “The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And leaders who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.”

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16. “If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.”

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17. “Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.”

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18. “If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.”

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19. “Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.”

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20. “The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.”

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21. “Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.”

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22. “God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.”

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23. “Compare yourself only with Jesus.”

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24. “Only a disciple can make a disciple.”

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25. “Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.”

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26. “A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to ‘accept’ Christ without forsaking the world.”

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27. “God’s plan will continue on God’s schedule.”

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28. “It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.”

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29. “I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.”

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30. “The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.”

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31. “God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called “The Word.” The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.”

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32. “When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.”

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33. “God’s justice and God’s mercy do not quarrel with each other.”

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34. “God’s Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.”

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35. “Without worship, we go about miserable.”

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36. “One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.”

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37. “The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.”

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38. “Refuse to be average.”

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39. “Listen to no man who has not listened to God.”

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40. “Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.”

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41. “In coming to Christ we don’t bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.”

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42. “What’s closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you’ll talk about Him.”

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43. “Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.”

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44. “It’s time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.”

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45. “Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!”

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46. “Most Christians don’t hear God’s voice because we’ve already decided we aren’t going to do what He says.”

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47. “Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.”

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48. “The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.”

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49. “Sermonettes make Christianettes.”

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50. “A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.”

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