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Religion Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Tozer writes that faith means trusting God’s words even when we don’t fully understand them. He says many Christians feel lonely, and only God’s presence can heal that emptiness. He also warns that staying comfortable can stop spiritual growth and keep us from becoming truly holy.

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No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

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Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

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Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

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To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

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The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

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We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

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Faith in faith is faith astray.

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Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he…

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It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

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Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

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Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

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Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

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Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

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Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

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It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men…

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A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

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May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of…

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The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from…

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...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The…

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A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual…

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There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not…

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Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it…

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The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority…

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The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's…

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A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To…

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I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the…

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...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without…

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Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers…

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

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Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our…

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If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically…

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The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of…

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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of…

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The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility…

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Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into…

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The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance…

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A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

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Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

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One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs.

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The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

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God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

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Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,…

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To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

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It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

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The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

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The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

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A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

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There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

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Where God is not glorified, that place is sick

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Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.

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Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

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Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

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