If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. …We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God
A frightened world needs a fearless church.
– AW Tozer –
The old cross is a symbol of death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of a human being. The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said good-bye to his friends. He was not coming back. He was going out to have it ended. The cross made no compromise, modified nothing, spared nothing; it slew all of the man, completely and for good. It did not try to keep on good terms with its victim. It struck cruel and hard, and when it had finished its work, the man was no more.
– AW Tozer –
In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
– AW Tozer –
Christians don’t tell lies – they just go to church and sing them.
– AW Tozer –
What comes to our minds when we think of God is the most important thing about us.
– AW Tozer –
The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
– AW Tozer –
from The Pursuit of God, 1948
I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn’t find it out for many months.
– AW Tozer –
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
– AW Tozer –
