Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “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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404. “America is laughing her way to Hell.”

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

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407. “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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408. “The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.”

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

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410. “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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411. “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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412. “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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413. “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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414. “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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415. “Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.”

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

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417. “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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418. “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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419. “No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.”

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

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

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422. “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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423. “Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.”

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

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

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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. “A thankful heart cannot be cynical.”

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

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429. “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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430. “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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431. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”

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432. “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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433. “God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.”

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

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435. “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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436. “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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437. “You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.”

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

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439. “In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.”

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

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442. “When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.”

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443. “This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.”

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

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

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446. “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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447. “The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.”

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448. “Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.”

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449. “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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450. “Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.”

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