A.W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:54 Filed in: Life
"We need to remember that it is possible to have some kind of external religious experience that immunizes you to the new birth, and puts you where you will never be born again, because you think you are already born again."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:52 Filed in: Life
"In that great and terrible day, there will be those white with shock when they find that they have depended upon a mental assent to Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:33 Filed in: Life
"The greater your contentment with your daily circumstances in this world, the greater your defection from the ranks of God's pilgrims en route to a city whose architect and builder is God Himself!"
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:31 Filed in: Life
"The only person who is incurably sick is the one who thinks he or she is well."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:28 Filed in: Church
"The Holy Spirit did not come upon the disciples to unite them. The Holy Spirit came upon the disciples because they were already united."
- AW Tozer, Sermon, God's Great Promise To The Church
- AW Tozer, Sermon, God's Great Promise To The Church
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:27 Filed in: Church
"When leaders and members of a church do not have the genuine gifts of the Spirit, the true anointing of the Spirit, they are thrown back to depend upon human and natural capabilities. In that case, natural talents must come to the fore... in this realm of religious activity, talent runs the church. The gifts of the Spirit are not recognized and used as God intended... Part of the successful operation of that church depends upon men with business talents and part of it depends upon men with natural gifts as salesmen and politicians... Much of the religious activity we see in the churches is not the eternal working of the Eternal Spirit, but the mortal working of man's mortal mind, and that is raw tragedy."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:27 Filed in: Church
"In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:26 Filed in: Church
"The tree that is blown down in the storm is rotten in its heart or it wouldn't be blown down. And the church that falls because of persecution is a church that was dead before it fell."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:26 Filed in: Church
"Evangelical Christianity, at least in the United States, is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is an accepted part of our way of life."
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:25 Filed in: Church
"The popular notion that the first obligation of the church is to spread the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false. Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it... To spread an effete, degenerate brand of Christianity to pagan lands is not to fulfill the commandment of Christ or to discharge our obligation to the heathen."
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:24 Filed in: Church
"There isn't anything quite so chilling, quite so disheartening as a man without the Holy Spirit preaching about the Holy Spirit."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:23 Filed in: Church
"The church and the world have become so mixed up that it is hard to tell one from the other."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:22 Filed in: Church
"What the combined forces of hell can't do, the church can do. Love of money, love of the world, unconfessed iniquity, private sins that no one dreams we have -- these are destroying the Church of Christ."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:21 Filed in: Church
"To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the `program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us... Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself...."
- The Pursuit of God; Preface, 1948; A.W. Tower
- The Pursuit of God; Preface, 1948; A.W. Tower
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:19 Filed in: Church
"It can be fairly said that the institutional church is largely known in the world as an organization and not as a living organism. The institutional church offers many good things to its members, but it does not necessarily recognize the true glory of Christ's life within. It lives and thrives on sociability, amusements, group activities -- things that may be innocent and pleasant and nice but which lack the glories of the church of the living God."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
A.W. Tozerc
08/02/18 20:17 Filed in: Christian Walk
"No one can know truth except those who obey truth."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:15 Filed in: Christian Walk
"A Christian is no Christian until he is all Christian, until he has reached the point of no return."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:14 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!"
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:13 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:12 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I think the difference is in the emphasis of the major miracle which we ought to expect in genuine Christian conversion. Those old-timers would not have believed if a major miracle had not taken place. They would never have been willing to accept a pale and apologetic kind of believing on the Son of God. They insisted on a miracle taking place within the human breast. They knew what Peter meant when he said that the Lord God has begotten us unto a living hope."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:12 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Let me solemnly tell you that the Holy Ghost never works with mere talent... much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a mild case of orthodox religion grafted onto a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:11 Filed in: Christian Walk
"strength to resist evil is best gained by aggressive service"
- AW Tozer, The Acts of the Apostles
- AW Tozer, The Acts of the Apostles
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:11 Filed in: Christian Walk
"I hear people testify that they give their tithe because God makes their nine-tenths go farther than the ten-tenths. That is not spirituality; that is just plain business. I insist that it is a dangerous thing to associate the working of God with our prosperity and success down here."
- AW Tozer, I Talk Back To The Devil
- AW Tozer, I Talk Back To The Devil
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:10 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only."
- A. W. Tozer
- A. W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:09 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The Bible has very few kind things to say about money and earthly possessions and it is most frank in its expressions against the heaping up of treasures."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:07 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cure a man of dishonesty, it cannot guarantee his entrance into the kingdom of heaven."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:06 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Some people in reading the Bible say they cannot understand why Elijah and other men had such active power with the living God. It is quite simple. God heard Elijah because Elijah had heard God. God did according the word of Elijah because Elijah had done according to the word of God. You cannot separate the two."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:05 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If you are going to heaven, you had better begin to live like it now, and if you are going to die like a Christian, you had better live like a Christian now."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:02 Filed in: Christian Walk
"All of the Christians I meet who are amounting to anything for God are Christians who are very much out of key with their age - very, very much out of tune with their generation... If you can fit into it too comfortably, I am forced to wonder whether the miracle has ever been wrought in your life."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 20:00 Filed in: Christian Walk
"No oriental monarch ever ruled his cowering subjects with any more cruel tyranny than things, visible things, audible things, tangible things, rule mankind... It seems incredible that we who were made for many worlds should accept this one world as our ultimate home."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozerc
08/02/18 19:57 Filed in: Christian Walk
"The Bible links faith to expression and faith that never gets expression is not a Bible faith... You say, 'Well, I worship God in my heart.' I wonder if you do. I wonder if you are simply just excusing the fact that you haven't generated enough spiritual heat to get your mouth open."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:54 Filed in: Christian Walk
"Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:53 Filed in: Christian Walk
"We have religion without guilt, and religion without guilt just tries to make God a big pal of man. But religion without guilt is a religion that cannot escape hell for it deceives and finally destroys all who are a part of it."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:49 Filed in: Christian Walk
"There is so little filling of our vessels these days because there is so very little of emptying."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:27 Filed in: Christian Walk
"If those who call themselves the people of God would give up their carnality and worldly-mindedness, if they would live with the reality that Jesus is victor at the heavenly controls, they could be the kind of New Testament church that makes glad the heart of God. There would be such an overflow of the Holy Spirit's gifts and graces that their spirituality would be effective in every contact and activity, just as it was in New Testament times."
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
- AW Tozer, Jesus, Author Of Our Faith
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:25 Filed in: Christian Walk
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
- A. W. Tozer
- A. W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:18 Filed in: Bible
"I wouldn't believe an archangel if he came to me with a wingspread of twelve feet, shining like an atomic bomb just at the moment of its explosion, if he couldn't give me chapter and verse... The Holy Spirit who inspired the Scriptures will expect obedience to the Scriptures... The Holy Spirit will expect obedience to the Word of God."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W, Tozer
08/02/18 19:17 Filed in: Bible
"To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary."
- AW, Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW, Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:09 Filed in: Law
"I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:07 Filed in: Law
"When a Christian ignores the commandment of Christ, he is guilty of sin doubly compounded. He violates holy vows, is guilty of rebellion against God and commits the grotesque sin of calling Jesus Lord with his words and denying His Lordship with his deeds."
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
- AW Tozer, The Warfare Of The Spirit
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 19:02 Filed in: Sin
"The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. They are facing Christ and the world.... The ‘worship’ growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks."
- This World: Playground or Battleground? by A.W. Tozer, pp. 5-6.
- This World: Playground or Battleground? by A.W. Tozer, pp. 5-6.
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 18:59 Filed in: Sin
"...is not strange since almost everything the Church is doing these days has been suggested to her by the world. I observe with pained amusement how many water boys of the pulpit in their effort to be prophets are standing up straight and tall and speaking out boldly in favor of ideas that have been previously fed into their minds by the psychiatrists, the sociologists, the novelists, the scientists and the secular educators."
- A.W. Tozer
- A.W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 18:57 Filed in: Sin
"The teaching of forgiveness without any turning from sin is a great error and it has filled the churches with deceived members and helped to fill hell with deceived souls."
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
- AW Tozer, The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II
A.W. Tozer
08/02/18 18:51 Filed in: Sin
In my opinion, the great single need of the moment is that light-hearted superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up, with His train filling the temple. The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are left to our own devices and forced to make up the lack of spontaneous worship by bringing in countless cheap and tawdry activities to hold the attention of the church people.
- A.W. Tozer, Keys To The Deeper Life, 87 & 88
- A.W. Tozer, Keys To The Deeper Life, 87 & 88
