Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.”

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402. “Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.”

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403. “We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.”

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404. “You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven’t gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won’t please anybody.”

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405. “The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know.”

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406. “God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him...”

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407. “When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner’s side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner’s side. It isn’t that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.”

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408. “Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”

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409. “Christians don’t tell lies they just go to church and sing them.”

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410. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”

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411. “Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn’t on your calendar; something to revive your soul!”

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412. “What I am anxious to see in Christian believers is a beautiful paradox. I want to see in them the joy of finding God while at the same time they are blessedly pursuing Him. I want to see in them the great joy of having God yet always wanting Him.”

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413. “We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.”

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414. “The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.”

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415. “It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.”

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416. “The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”

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417. “The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.”

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418. “You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.”

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419. “A thankful heart cannot be cynical.”

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420. “Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.”

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421. “Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.”

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422. “This is the tragedy and woe of the hour – that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst – the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.”

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423. “To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.”

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424. “To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.”

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425. “What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?”

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426. “I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.”

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427. “It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.”

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428. “We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.”

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429. “We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not.”

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430. “We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”

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431. “We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.”

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432. “Very few things in life matter.”

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433. “If in our Saturday pursuits we’re far from God’s presence, we’re not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.”

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434. “Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God’s presence?”

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435. “We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.”

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436. “The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?”

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437. “Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.”

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438. “The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.”

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439. “The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.”

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440. “I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they’re dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they’re enemies.”

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441. “We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.”

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442. “Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.”

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443. “The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.”

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444. “The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he’s ever truly been born again.”

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445. “What good is all our busy religion if God isn’t in it? What good is it if we’ve lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we’ve lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?”

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446. “Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.”

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447. “Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.”

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448. “Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”

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449. “Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God’s loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own.”

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450. “The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.”

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