Quotes from Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

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.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.