Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.”

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452. “The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.”

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453. “Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.”

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454. “God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.”

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455. “Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.”

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456. “The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.”

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457. “Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own.”

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458. “I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they’re enemies.”

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459. “Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.”

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460. “The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think 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, how can you hope to find inward peace?”

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461. “Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.”

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462. “What good is all our busy religion if God isn’t in it? What good is it if we’ve lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we’ve lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?”

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463. “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.”

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464. “No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.”

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465. “Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.”

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466. “Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.”

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467. “The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.”

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468. “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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469. “God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.”

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470. “When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than “I AM.” “I am that I am,” says God, “I change not.” Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.”

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471. “Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.”

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472. “We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.”

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473. “Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.”

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474. “The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.”

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475. “Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.”

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476. “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.”

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477. “May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!”

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478. “Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.”

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479. “If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.”

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480. “The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.”

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481. “Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.”

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482. “I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.”

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483. “We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.”

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484. “God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.”

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485. “Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, “What comes into your mind when you think about God?” we might predict with certainty the future of that man.”

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486. “I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.”

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487. “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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488. “The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.”

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489. “Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.”

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490. “People have faith in ‘faith’ and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.”

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491. “Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.”

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492. “Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.”

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493. “If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.”

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494. “Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.”

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495. “A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.”

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496. “One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in evangelical circles, is the notion that as times change the church must change with them.”

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497. “No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!”

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498. “The author squares man’s depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”

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499. “Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.”

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500. “We’re here to be worshipers first and workers only second.”

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