Aiden Wilson Tozer
On May 12, 1963, Aiden Wilson Tozer died in Toronto, closing a life spent working as both a theologian and a writer in the English language.
Born on April 21, 1897, in Pennsylvania, Tozer was a United States citizen who was educated at Houghton University and at Wheaton College. Those two institutions appear in the record as part of his educational background, and he carried that formation into a career that combined theological thought with written work.
Tozer pursued his two occupations — theologian and writer — across the span of his adult life, producing work in English. He was born in Pennsylvania and died in Toronto, and the arc between those two places accounts for a career of roughly four decades of active writing and theological work as an American citizen.
He died at the age of sixty-six, and the concrete facts the record supports are these: a Pennsylvania-born American who was educated at Houghton University and Wheaton College, who worked as a theologian and a writer in the English language, and who died in Toronto in 1963.
Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.
God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called 'The Word.' The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.’
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
The purpose of good works isn’t to change us or save us; rather, it’s the demonstration of the change within us.
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the ‘poor in spirit.’