Quotes from Aiden Wilson Tozer

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

If your life does not worship God, your lips do not worship God either.

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.

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

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

Complacency is easy...and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.