Quotes from AW Tozer

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

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

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

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

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.