Aiden Wilson Tozer quotes - page 2

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. (Aiden Wilson Tozer)
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
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Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
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An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
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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 strength before going out to face the world again. ... The thoughtful soul to solitude retires," said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? Science, which has provided men with certain material comforts, has robbed them of their souls by surrounding them with a world hostile to their existence.
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In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
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When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."
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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.
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God ... must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else. 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 be nothing. God will not be used.
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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 delights not to be honored but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and overserious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart. (Aiden Wilson Tozer)
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.
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Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it.
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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.
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The 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 else of whom we have heard. It cannot but be a major tragedy in the life of any man to live in a church from childhood to old age and know nothing more real than some synthetic god compounded of theology and logic, but having no eyes to see, no ears to hear, and no heart to love.
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'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
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...if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame. (forward).
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