A.W. Tozer Quotes

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

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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 is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

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Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

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Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

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Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

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I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

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To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

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

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We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.

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

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The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

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When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.

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The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

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Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

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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.

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Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.

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Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

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Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick, for it is trying to run a heavenly institution after an earthly manner.

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When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

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But when, through the open door of the cross and the name and power of Jesus Christ, I commend myself to the Father's heart, then God cancels all my past, accepts all my present, swears His holy name for my future and the love of God take me over. Then fear goes out of my heart, because love has come in.

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Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.

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The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.

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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

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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 long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

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A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.

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Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity!

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Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him (pp. 94-95).

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But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy

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Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone.

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I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.

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We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith.

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The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.

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If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.

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If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing.

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When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side.

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The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

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As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.

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Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.

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But the very ransomed children of God themselves: why do they know so little of that habitual conscious communion with God which the Scriptures seem to offer? The answer is our chronic unbelief. Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things.

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God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

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It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

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Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor of the cave would chafe us, the weather would irritate us and the very silence would cause us to fret

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What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

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Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?

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Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.

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