AW Tozer

December 27, 2013

God is very patient with His children and often tolerates in them carnal traits so gross as to shock their fellow Christians. But that is only for a while. As more light comes to our hearts, and especially as we go on to new and advanced spiritual experiences, God begins to impose disciplines upon us to purge us from the same faults He tolerated before. Then He permits us to say and do things that react unfavorably against us and expose our vanity for what it is. It may then happen in the providential will of God that the very gift we have boasted of may be lost to us or the project we are so proud of will fail. After we have learned our lesson the Lord may restore what He has taken away, for He is more concerned with our souls than with our service. But sometimes our boasting permanently hurts us and excludes us from blessings we might have enjoyed.

– AW Tozer –
From Man – The Dwelling Place of God, ch. 18, “Boasting or Belittling”

December 26, 2013

We all know how painful it is to be forced to listen to a confirmed boaster sound off on his favorite topic – himself. To be the captive of such a man even for a short time tries our patience to the utmost and puts a heavy strain upon our Christian charity.

Boasting is particularly offensive when it is heard among the children of God, the one place above all others where it should never be found. Yet it is quite common among Christians, though disguised somewhat by the use of the stock expression, “I say this to the glory of God.”

 – AW Tozer –
From Man – The Dwelling Place of God, ch. 18, “Boasting or Belittling”

October 24, 2013

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

– AW Tozer –

October 13, 2013

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

– AW Tozer –

September 17, 2013

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshipper entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself.

– AW Tozer –
from The Knowledge of the Holy

August 24, 2013

In Israel’s days of journeying, God gave the visible cloud by day and the fire by night as a witness and an evidence of His glory and constant protection. If God was still giving the same signals of His abiding Presence, I wonder how many churches would have the approving cloud by day and fire by night.

– AW Tozer –

August 9, 2013

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

– AW Tozer –

August 1, 2013

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.

– AW Tozer –

July 27, 2013

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

– AW Tozer –