Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor. For his accomplishments, he received honorary doctorates from Wheaton and Houghton colleges.
A. W. Tozer Quotes
God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.
—AW Tozer
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
He has given us His word; He has placed Himself at our disposal in response to believing prayer; He has made available to us the infinite moral power of His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will here on earth. There is no excuse for our acting like timid weaklings.
—AW Tozer
The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them. So it is with the Scriptures.
— AW Tozer
Since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father He feels toward His people exactly as the Father feels. He will always act like Jesus, toward sinners in compassion, toward saints in warm affection, toward human suffering in tenderest pity and love.
—AW Tozer
The Church’s mightiest influence is felt when she is different from the world in which she lives.
—AW Tozer
The world situation is such that nothing less than God can straighten it out;
Let us not fail the world & disappoint God by failing to pray
—AW Tozer
We pray earnestly, O God, that we may not be found among those with hardened hearts, no longer able to hear Thy voice.
—AW Tozer
It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
—Tozer
It is not thinkable that men should have faith & not pray.
—AW Tozer
It requires a serious mind & a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. Most Christians never do.
—AW Tozer