Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

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352. “Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.”

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353. “Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.”

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354. “When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.”

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355. “God doesn’t work through us because we’re flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.”

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

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357. “The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.”

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358. “Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.”

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359. “The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.”

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360. “I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.”

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361. “If your Christianity depends upon a pastor’s preaching, then you’re a long way from being where you should be.”

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362. “We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.”

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363. “The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.”

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364. “Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.”

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365. “Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.”

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366. “Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.”

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367. “The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.”

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368. “Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.”

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369. “Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.”

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370. “Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.”

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371. “The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.”

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372. “Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.”

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373. “The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”

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374. “The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.”

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375. “Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.”

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376. “Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.”

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377. “The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.”

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378. “If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.”

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379. “Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.”

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380. “It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.”

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381. “Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.”

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382. “We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.”

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383. “Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.”

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384. “The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.”

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385. “We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.”

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386. “The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.”

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387. “Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.”

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388. “Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws – like the Shekinah from the temple.”

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389. “God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.”

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390. “An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”

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391. “Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.”

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392. “The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.”

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393. “We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”

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394. “The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.”

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395. “You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!”

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396. “America is laughing her way to Hell.”

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397. “God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.”

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398. “If Jesus Christ isn’t the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we’re only fooling ourselves.”

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399. “Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.”

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400. “No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.”

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