Inspirational Quotes by A. W. Tozer (American Author)

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Prayer

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: God

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: God

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: God

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Bible

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Religion, Churches

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Trials, Justice

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Christianity

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: God

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees … Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Selfishness, Prayer

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Existence

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Evil

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Faith

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our “accepting” and “willing” are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Grace

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Ambition

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can’t make a wrong choice—any choice will be the right one.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: God

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Hell

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Happiness

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
—A. W. Tozer
Topics: Success

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