Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.”

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152. “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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153. “Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.”

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154. “It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.”

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

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156. “Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.”

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157. “If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.”

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

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159. “The purpose of good works isn’t to change us or save us; rather, it’s the demonstration of the change within us.”

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160. “Walking in humility isn’t focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it’s declaring what God is.”

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161. “The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.”

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162. “The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.”

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163. “The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.”

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164. “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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165. “The key to prayer is simply praying.”

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166. “We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.”

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167. “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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168. “May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.”

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169. “Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.”

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170. “Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.”

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171. “By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.”

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172. “No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.”

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173. “Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ‘accepting’ and ‘willing’ are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.”

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174. “Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.”

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175. “Acquaint thyself with God.”

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

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177. “When people sugarcoat Christianity, arrange it all nicely, they have, in effect, taken away the Cross.”

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178. “As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.”

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179. “Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.”

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180. “We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.”

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181. “Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.”

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182. “Oh, if we would only remember who God is!”

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183. “Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.”

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184. “The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.”

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

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186. “Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.”

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187. “O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.”

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188. “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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189. “Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.”

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190. “When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.”

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191. “The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.”

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

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193. “If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.”

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194. “All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.”

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195. “No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.”

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196. “As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.”

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197. “God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God’s call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.”

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198. “At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.”

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199. “Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”

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200. “The true follower of Christ will not ask, “If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?” Rather he will say, “This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!””

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