Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.”

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

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

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

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.”

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111. “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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112. “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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113. “God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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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117. “When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.”

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

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.”

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.”

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

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.”

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

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

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

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.”

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143. “As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.”

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

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

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

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147. “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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148. “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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149. “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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150. “The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.”

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