Top 500 Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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.”

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

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403. “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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404. “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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405. “The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.”

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

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

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

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

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

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413. “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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414. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”

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

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “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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419. “It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.”

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

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

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424. “A thankful heart cannot be cynical.”

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

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

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428. “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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429. “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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430. “We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.”

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

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

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434. “Very few things in life matter.”

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

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

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

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438. “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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439. “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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440. “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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441. “The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.”

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442. “We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.”

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443. “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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444. “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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445. “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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446. “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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447. “We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.”

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448. “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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449. “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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450. “The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.”

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