Aiden Wilson Tozer

“'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.”

“In many churches 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!”

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

“God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'”

“The true Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. Without this, religion is but a shadow, a reflection of reality, a cheap copy of an original once enjoyed by someone else of whom we have heard. It cannot but be a major tragedy in the life of any man to live in a church from childhood to old age and know nothing more real than some synthetic god compounded of theology and logic, but having no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no heart to love.”

“The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing Christ and the world. ...The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself—a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks."”

“We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.”

“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.”

“Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.”

“Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.”

“I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble—we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us! … Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.”

“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”

“Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it.”

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

“Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.”

“Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.”

“Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.”

“We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.”

“When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."”

“The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.”

“In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.”

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.”

“Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.”

“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.”

“What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”

“God … must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else. Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.”