Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctoral degrees.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy of the Christian life has resulted from this one basic error in our religious thinking.
The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.
Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.
I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.
When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.
The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
To accept Christ is to know the meaning of the words 'as he is, so are we in this world. ' We accept his friends as our friends, his enemies as our enemies, his ways as our ways, his rejection as our rejection, his cross as our cross, his life as our life and his future as our future. If this is what we mean when we advise the seeker to accept Christ, we had better explain it to him. He may get into deep spiritual trouble unless we do.
The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.
God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.
Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
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.
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves. Whatever He condemned, He still condemns. Today we have what they call the relativity of morals. But remember this God never changes. Holiness and righteousness are conformity to the will of God. And the will of God never changes for moral creatures.