A.W. Tozer Quotes

“The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world.”

“The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.”

“The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.”

“Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.”

“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate.

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”

“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself.

“We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One.”

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.”

“It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with out Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to Gd and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts.”

“If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy we must go this way of renunciation.”

“God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may.”

“We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts.”

“Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him [God].

“When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.”

“Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.”

“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.”

“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”

“Let us never forget that such a truth as this cannot be learned by rote as one would learn the facts of physical science. They must be experienced before we can really know them.”

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

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”