Written by Pastor Jack Wellman20 Christian Quotes by A.W. Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer lived in the first half of the twentieth century. Even though he never had any formal seminary training, he was a pastor for thirty-three years, and he wrote dozens of books about the Christian faith. A.W. Tozer has been an inspiration to Christians for generations because of the wisdom in his sermons and writings. May this collection of quotes be an inspiration to you!
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The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
- A. W. Tozer
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What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
- A.W. Tozer
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There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its biblical sense, but something else and something less.
- A. W. Tozer
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An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
- A.W. Tozer
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As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
- A. W. Tozer
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The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.
- A. W. Tozer
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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
- A. W. Tozer
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True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it.
- A. W. Tozer
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Salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred Scriptures... Apart from obedience there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.
- A. W. Tozer
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Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
- A. W. Tozer
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We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.
- A. W. Tozer
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
- A. W. Tozer
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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice - any choice will be the right one.
- A. W. Tozer
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Jesus is not one of many ways to approach God, nor is He the best of several ways; He is the only way.
- A. W. Tozer
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God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called the Word.
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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
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God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.
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I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.
- A. W. Tozer
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