Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.”

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102. “You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.”

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103. “The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.”

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104. “Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.”

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105. “We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.”

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106. “Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God.”

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107. “Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.”

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108. “The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.”

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109. “With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.”

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110. “The more fascinated we become with the toys of this world, the more we forget that there’s another world to come.”

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111. “It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

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112. “Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?”

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113. “The essence of surrender is getting out of God’s way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.”

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114. “Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.”

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115. “The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.”

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116. “You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.”

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117. “Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.”

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118. “Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.”

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119. “If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.”

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120. “Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man’s way instead of serving God in God’s way.”

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121. “God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.”

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122. “He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.”

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123. “Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.”

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124. “The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.”

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125. “When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.”

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126. “Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.”

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127. “The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.”

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128. “The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”

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129. “We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.”

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130. “You win them to what you win them with.”

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131. “I’m not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me – he’s got judo I never heard of. But he can’t handle the One to whom I’m joined; he can’t handle the One to whom I’m united; he can’t handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.”

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132. “God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.”

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133. “We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.”

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134. “God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.”

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135. “The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.”

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136. “I am looking for the fellowship of the burning heart – for men and women of all generations everywhere who love the Savior until adoration becomes the music of their soul until they don’t have to be fooled with and entertained and amused. Jesus Christ is everything, all-in-all.”

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137. “When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.”

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138. “To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.”

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139. “Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one.”

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140. “God’s purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.”

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141. “True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.”

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142. “The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.”

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143. “For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.”

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144. “He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. “The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee.” God is not contained: He contains.”

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145. “We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our spiritual comprehension. The One with whom we deal is the One who embodies faithfulness and truth-the One who cannot lie.”

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146. “You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.”

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147. “Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.”

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148. “True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.”

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149. “Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.”

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150. “The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.”

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