Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...”

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202. “Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.”

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203. “May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.”

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204. “Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.”

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205. “What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?”

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206. “The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything – we have all the rest.”

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207. “It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.”

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208. “God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.”

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209. “A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of the external situation.”

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210. “The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.”

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211. “As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.”

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212. “The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.”

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213. “We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.”

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214. “God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever.”

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215. “The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.”

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216. “Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.”

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217. “People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.”

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218. “Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.”

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219. “In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.”

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220. “We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.”

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221. “Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.”

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222. “We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.”

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223. “Keep your heart with all diligence and God will take care of the universe.”

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224. “After my study of today’s church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.”

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225. “It is no sin to doubt some things but it may be fatal to believe everything.”

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226. “It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much...”

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227. “Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God’s dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.”

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228. “Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.”

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229. “If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.”

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230. “The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.”

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231. “The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.”

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232. “Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.”

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233. “The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.”

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234. “The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.”

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235. “God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.”

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236. “Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.”

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237. “God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.”

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238. “God’s redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.”

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239. “Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.”

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240. “Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.”

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241. “It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout the world. As a Christian minister, I have no right to preach to people I have not prayed for. That is my strong conviction.”

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242. “The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God’s wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.”

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243. “The Christian’s heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.”

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244. “Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us...”

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245. “Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.”

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246. “The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.”

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247. “Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.”

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248. “The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.”

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249. “The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.”

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250. “I can’t sing a lick but that’s nobody’s business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.”

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