Quotes from A. W. Tozer

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

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

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

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.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

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

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.