A.W. Tozer

The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it intersects it. In coming to Christ we do not bring our old life up onto a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

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

Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Obje…

When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the 'and' lies our great woe. I…

The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.

From all this we learn that faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

Take nothing for granted… Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord and pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. The masses are always wrong. In every ge…

The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

I believe that the chronic unhappiness of most Christians may be attributed to a gnawing uneasiness lest God has not fully forgiven them, or the fear that He expects as the price of His forgiveness some sort of emotional…

The miracle of God went when and where His people went; it stayed when His people stopped.

It is easy to learn the doctrine of personal revival and victorious living; it is quite another thing to take our cross and plod on to the dark and bitter hill of self renunciation.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Yet there is considerable truth in the idea that revivals are born after midnight, for revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough.

Men think of the world, not as a battleground but as a playground. We are not here to fight, we are here to frolic.

The sacred-secular antithesis has no foundation in the New Testament.

Shortly after, Paul took up the cry of liberty and declared all meats clean, every day holy, all places sacred and every act acceptable to God.

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.

For such a man, living itself will be sacramental and the whole world a sanctuary. His entire life will be a priestly ministration.

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

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…

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our…

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

Whatever else it embraces, 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…

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 cri…

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!

Faith honors God by accepting the biblical revelation of the divine character. Faith lets God be what He says He is and adjusts its concepts accordingly.

Superstition degrades the reputation of God by believing things u…

The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and asks no portion or share for himself. He…

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work w…

“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”

“The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”

“We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”