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.
For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.
All great Christians have been wounded souls.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.
Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.
When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.
The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.
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.