Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.”

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

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.”

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106. “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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107. “It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.”

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108. “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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109. “Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.”

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110. “Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.”

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111. “I like Easter. But let’s remember that Christ’s resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.”

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112. “Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.”

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113. “Jesus came not to condemn, but to reclaim.”

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114. “God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.”

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118. “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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119. “When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.”

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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.”

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

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127. “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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128. “Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.”

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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.”

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

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134. “The key to prayer is simply praying.”

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135. “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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136. “There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.”

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

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138. “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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139. “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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140. “The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.”

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141. “Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.”

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.”

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

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

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

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150. “To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.”

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