1. “God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.” – A.W. Tozer
2. “Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.” – A.W. Tozer
3. “Let us start reading our Bibles with the thought that God means exactly what He says.” – A.W. Tozer
4. “When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.” – A.W. Tozer
5. “If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilities on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!” – A.W. Tozer
6. “There is today no lack of Bible teachers to set forth correctly the principles of the doctrines of Christ, but too many of these seem satisfied to teach the fundamentals of the faith year after year, strangely unaware that there is in their ministry no manifest Presence, nor anything unusual in their personal lives.” – A.W. Tozer
7. “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.” – A.W. Tozer
8. “God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may.” – A.W. Tozer
9. “All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.” – A.W. Tozer
10. “Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.” – A.W. Tozer
11. “Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.” – A.W. Tozer
12. “If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy we must go this way of renunciation.” – A.W. Tozer
13. “You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.” – A.W. Tozer
14. “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.” – A.W. Tozer
15. “Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.” – A.W. Tozer
16. “We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One.” – A.W. Tozer
17. “Sometimes I go to God and say, “God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.” – A.W. Tozer
18. “Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.” – A.W. Tozer
19. “The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.” – A.W. Tozer
20. “Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.” – A.W. Tozer
21. “If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through.” – A.W. Tozer
22. “The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid – that is the paradox of faith.” – A.W. Tozer
23. “Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow your Lord. The masses are always wrong. In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.” – A.W. Tozer
24. “Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.” – A.W. Tozer
25. “Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name; Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love’s reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, And gaze and gaze on Thee!” – A.W. Tozer
26. “I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but it is also a book which is now speaking.” – A.W. Tozer
27. “Trust God in the dark until the light returns.” – A.W. Tozer
28. “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.” – A.W. Tozer
29. “We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts” – A.W. Tozer
30. “What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends ” – A.W. Tozer
31. “When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. – A.W. Tozer
32. “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.” – A.W. Tozer
33. “In natural matters faith follows evidence and is impossible without it, but in the realm of the spirit faith precedes understanding; it does not follow it. The natural man must know in order to believe; the spiritual man must believe in order to know. The faith that saves is not a conclusion drawn from evidence; it is a moral thing, a thing of the spirit, a supernatural infusion of confidence in Jesus Christ, a very gift of God.” – A.W. Tozer
34. “Only after a painful ordeal of self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually think about God.” – A.W. Tozer
35. “When we make a choice today, we are deciding who we will be tomorrow.” – A.W. Tozer
36. “Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.” – A.W. Tozer
37. “God does his deepest work in our darkest hours” – A.W. Tozer
38. “I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.” – A.W. Tozer
39. “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.” – A.W. Tozer
40. “To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.” – A.W. Tozer
41. “If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.” – A.W. Tozer
42. “What’s closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you’ll talk about Him.” – A.W. Tozer
43. “God is forever seeking to speak Himself out to His creation.” – A.W. Tozer
44. “A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.” – A.W. Tozer
45. “Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.” – A.W. Tozer
46. “The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.” – A.W. Tozer
47. “Thus we dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit himself.” – A.W. Tozer
48. “Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.” – A.W. Tozer
49. “Nothing on the outside compares to Thy presence on my inside.” – A.W. Tozer
50. “We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts.” – A.W. Tozer
51. “True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith.” – A.W. Tozer
52. “Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him [God]. – A.W. Tozer
53. “When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.” – A.W. Tozer
54. “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.” – A.W. Tozer
55. “What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.” – A.W. Tozer
56. “God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever” – A.W. Tozer
57. “When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.” – A.W. Tozer
58. “Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition.” – A.W. Tozer
59. “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.” – A.W. Tozer
60. “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.” – A.W. Tozer
61. “That I may know Him,” was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything.” – A.W. Tozer
62. “Let us never forget that such a truth as this cannot be learned by rote as one would learn the facts of physical science. They must be experienced before we can really know them.” – A.W. Tozer
63. “The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.” – A.W. Tozer
64. “It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.” – A.W. Tozer
65. “God was frankly pleased by this display of ardor, and the next day called” – A.W. Tozer
66. “Remember, fear is of the flesh and panic is of the devil.” – A.W. Tozer
67. “We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.” – A.W. Tozer
68. “I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. – A.W. Tozer
69. “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 within us. ” – A.W. Tozer
70. “Nothing will or can restore order till our hearts make the great decision: God shall be exalted above.” – A.W. Tozer
71. “When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.” – A.W. Tozer
72. “God wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything.” – A.W. Tozer
73. “Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.” – A.W. Tozer
74. “You have been forgiven, so act like it!” – A.W. Tozer
75. “We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.” – A.W. Tozer
76. “The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.” – A.W. Tozer
77. “The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.” – A.W. Tozer
78. “If we understand that everything happening to us is to make us more Christlike, it will solve a great deal of anxiety in our lives.” – A.W. Tozer
79. “We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.” – A.W. Tozer
80. “Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.” – A.W. Tozer
81. “We are not worshiping God on the throne but have come to the point of worshiping the shadow of the throne.” – A.W. Tozer
82. “In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.” – A.W. Tozer
83. “We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar.” – A.W. Tozer
84. “It is God which worketh in you.” He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone.” – A.W. Tozer
85. “The great unseen reality is God” – A.W. Tozer
86. “Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.” – A.W. Tozer
87. “Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live.” – A.W. Tozer
88. “It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with out Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to Gd and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts.” – A.W. Tozer
89. “In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.” – A.W. Tozer
90. “He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.” – A.W. Tozer
91. “Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.” – A.W. Tozer
92. “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” – A.W. Tozer
93. “Listen to no man who has not listened to God.” – A.W. Tozer
94. “Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.” – A.W. Tozer
95. “What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.” – A.W. Tozer
96. “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” – A.W. Tozer
97. “It is as true today as it was in Bible times that the man who hates his sins too much will get into trouble with those who do not hate sin enough. People resent having their friends turn away from them and by implication condemn their way of life.” – A.W. Tozer
98. “Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.” – A.W. Tozer
99. “One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.” – A.W. Tozer
100. “We do begin with God here, where all truth begins, for God is the one true and absolute reality.” – A.W. Tozer
101. “Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.” – A.W. Tozer
102. “We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.” – A.W. Tozer
103. “When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.” – A.W. Tozer