Church Quotes by Aiden Wilson Tozer

A scared world needs a fearless church.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak...…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized,…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church.…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God … and if there is one terrible disease in the Church…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer