327 Quotes by A.W. Tozer

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.

Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Because God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that boundless confidence in His character that used to be prominent among Christians. Confidence is necessary to respect. You cannot respect a man in whom you have no confidence. Extend that respect upward to God and if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him. You cannot have confidence in Him, because where there is no respect there can be no worship.

A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Someone may fear that we are magnifying private religion out of all proportion, that the "us" of the New Testament is being displaced by a selfish "I." Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?...Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.