A.W. Tozer
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Biography
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
"I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven."
"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."
"Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now."
"Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith."
"Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God."
"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love."
"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."
"We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is."
"We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind."
"The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence."
"Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience."
"The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence."
"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."
"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."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering."
"A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief."
"The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawing his life from his environment, unable to live a day apart from the stimulation which society affords him."
"What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become."
"Of one thing we may be sure, we can never escape the external stimuli that cause vexation. The world is full of them, and though we were to retreat to a cave and live the remainder of our days alone, we still could not lose them. The rough floor of the cave would chafe us, the weather would irritate us and the very silence would cause us to fret"
"Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you."
"He takes no pleasure in human tears. He came and wept that He might stop forever the fountain of human tears. He came and bereaved His mother that He might heal all bereavement. He came and lost everything that He might heal the wounds that we have from losing things. And He wants us to take pleasure in Him. Let us put away our doubts and trust Him."
"What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour."
"As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God."