A.W. Tozer

Quotes

• “I recommend to you Jesus Christ, the unchanging One. I recommend to you God's answer to your questions, God's solution t...”
• “The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. ...”
• “As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that ins...”
• “The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him abov...”
• “The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiate...”
• “The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman ...”
• “Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, an...”
• “For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man...”
• “I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the...”
• “The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both...”
• “Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out...”
• “The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man unti...”
• “To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our ...”
• “Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began pray...”
• “When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's si...”
• “A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, ...”
• “Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have...”
• “This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the ...”
• “Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of C...”
• “The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet ...”
• “What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His...”
• “Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original h...”
• “I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox reli...”
• “Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It i...”
• “If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in h...”
• “The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer...”
• “But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a ...”
• “The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also,...”
• “The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in ...”
• “The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history ...”
• “Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manif...”
• “It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not b...”
• “Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has...”
• “Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected...”
• “The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today ...”
• “I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, t...”
• “Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple ...”
• “[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and...”
• “A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest trage...”
• “When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into yo...”
• “What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the s...”
• “Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its ...”
• “The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one,...”
• “As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
• “The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from...”
• “To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice t...”
• “As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer ...”
• “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and rela...”
• “God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pu...”
• “If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief ...”