A. W. Tozer

Learn to pray inwardly every moment. After a while you can do this even while you work.

—AW Tozer

We can best repent our neglect of the Holy Spirit by neglecting Him no more. Let us begin to think of Him as One to be worshiped & obeyed. Let us throw open every door & invite Him in. Let us surrender to Him every room in the temple of our hearts & insist that He enter

—AW Tozer

He has made available to us the infinite moral power of His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will here on earth.

—AW Tozer

That Christian is a happy one who has found a company of true believers in whose heavenly fellowship he can live & love & labor.

— AW Tozer

The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity

—AW Tozer

We must get on our knees before our open Bible & allow the Holy Spirit to break our hearts & create a passion for Christ as we’ve never had

—AW Tozer

Jesus walked forth, alive!

I believe that so completely that I believe it all the time. This is not an Easter “thing” that I try to believe once a year. I believe it so fully & so completely that it is a part of my being, every moment of every day.

—AW Tozer

Much religious work is being done these days that will not be accepted or rewarded in that great day. Superior human gifts are being mistaken for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and neither they who exercise these gifts nor the Christian public are aware of the deception.

—AW Tozer

In spite of the difficulties we encounter when we pray, prayer is a powerful and effective way to get right, stay right & stay free from error.

—AW Tozer

Many of us want nothing radical or out of the ordinary, and we want God to accommodate us at our convenience. Thus we attach a rider to every prayer, making it impossible for God to answer it.

—AW Tozer

Intensity of prayer is no criterion of its effectiveness. A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord & yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.

—AW Tozer

All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.

—AW Tozer

The human soul is not a hard-baked vessel with a fixed size; it is a living thing capable of growth & expansion as it interacts with the gracious actions of the Holy Spirit.

—AW Tozer

The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

—AW Tozer

It will take more than talk & prayer to bring revival. There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven.

—AW Tozer

We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.

We have lost the sense & the wonder of His awe-fullness, His perfection, His beauty.

Oh, I feel that we should preach it, sing it, write about it, talk about it & tell it until we have recaptured the concept of the Majesty of God!

—AW Tozer

There is another kind of divine working that may occur without our being aware of it, or at least without our recognizing it for what it is. This is that wondrous operation of God known in theology as prevenient grace.

—AW Tozer

The Holy Spirit is the true conservator of orthodoxy & will invariably say the same thing to meek & trusting souls.

—AW Tozer

It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.

—AW Tozer

Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs.

—AW Tozer

I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the Church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit. More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods—all are unavailing.

—AW Tozer

God will take nine steps toward us, but He will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but He cannot do our repenting for us.

—AW Tozer

We shall need to recapture the spirit of worship. We shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness of God & the beauty of Jesus

—AW Tozer

If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.

—A. W. Tozer

Think with me about beauty & about this matchless One who is the Lord of all beauty, our Savior

—AW Tozer

I remind you that it is characteristic of the natural man to keep himself so busy with unimportant trifles that he is able to avoid the settling of the most important matters relating to life & existence.

—AW Tozer

I have asked myself many times why professing Christian believers can relegate the great missionary imperative of our Lord Jesus Christ to the sidelines of our Christian cause.

—AW Tozer

Gratitude. It is impossible to be too thankful to God, but it might be good to try it.

—AW Tozer

Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit

—A. W. Tozer