Quotes by A.W. Tozer

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my and `mine look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. Gods gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

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?

When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.

Because God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that boundless confidence in His character that used to be prominent among Christians. Confidence is necessary to respect. You cannot respect a man in whom you have no confidence. Extend that respect upward to God and if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him. You cannot have confidence in Him, because where there is no respect there can be no worship.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

To be effective the preachers message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be Gods present voice to a particular people.

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldnt find it out for many months

The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world.Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking at another world. They really saw another world.Nowadays, we perceive that even a large part of evangelical Christianity is trying to convert this world to the church. We are bringing the world in head over heels--unregenerated, uncleansed, unshriven, unbaptized, unsanctified. we are bringing the world right into the church. If we can get some big shot to say something nice about the church, we rush into print and tell about this fellow and what nice things he said. I dont care at all about big shots because I serve a living Saviour, and Jesus Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings. I believe every man ought to know this ability to see another world.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.

I find that when people havent found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If theyre not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.

What God made, God loves, because its inconceivable that God should make anything that He didnt love.

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.

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

What made Jesus death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay.

What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.