Top 15 A. W. Tozer Quotes

God … must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else. Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and asks no portion or share for himself. He delights not to be honored but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and overserious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

What comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work.

Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."

We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

...if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame. (forward).