A.W. Tozer
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on the Vicarious Atonement
The critics of vicarious atonement have a lot in their favor. When they argue, “I can’t see this Jesus dying for you. I can’t see this transfer of responsibility from one personality to another.” And by illustration they say, “How would it be if a man were brought up before a court of law and [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Being Ourselves
“We should thank God for giving us our own individual personalities and temperaments and abilities. We should never waste time and energy trying to fashion ourselves after someone else, no matter how much we admire that person. God does not expect us to become identical copies of our spiritual heroes. Actually, I have learned something [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on the Meek Man
“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. He develops toward himself a kindly sense of humor and learns to say, ‘Oh, so you have been overlooked? They have placed someone else before you? [...]
Tozer – Choices, Deeds, and Consequences
“NOW, THERE’S A VOICE THAT’S SPEAKING TO US TONIGHT. In the Word and out of Heaven this voice speaks … and it says ’Consider’. And consider means, of course, to look at closely and to think about seriously. And all society is conspiring to prevent us from doing this. Organized human society wants us to do [...]
Be Thou Exalted – A Prayer to be Remembered
“O God, be Thou exalted over my possessions. Nothing of earth’s treasures shall seem dear unto me if only Thou art glorified in my life. Be Thou exalted over my friendships. I am determined that Thou shalt be above all, though I must stand deserted and alone in the midst of the earth. Be Thou [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Faith
“[Faith] is summed up for us in the Hebrew epistle when we are instructed to run life’s race ‘looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.’ From all this we learn that faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Being Other-Worldly
“If we truly want to follow God we must seek to be other-worldly. This I say knowing well that that word has been used with scorn by the sons of this world and applied to the Christian as a badge of reproach. So be it. Every man must choose his world. If we who follow [...]
Tozer – The Freedom of the Will
“IT IS INHERENT IN THE NATURE OF MAN THAT HIS WILL MUST BE FREE. Made in the image of God who is completely free, man must enjoy a measure of freedom. This enables him to select his companions for this world and the next; it enables him to yield his soul to whom he will, [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on the Mysteries of Election and Predestination
“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘O Lord, Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God’s omniscience. [...]
Tozer, The Sovereignty of God
GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY IS THE ATTRIBUTE by which He rules His entire creation, and to be sovereign God must be all-knowing, all-powerful, and absolutely free. The reasons are these: Were there even one datum of knowledge, however small, unknown to God, His rule would break down at that point. To be Lord over all the creation, [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Keys to the Deeper Life
“Question: Dr. Tozer, what specific steps would you suggest for the earnest seeker after the ‘deeper life’? Tozer: I have never been much for ‘steps’ in the Christian life, though they may be useful to some people. For the most part, my method has been simply to plunge in on the promises of God and let God [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer, Where Are the Prophets?
“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
“In the moral conflict now raging around us whoever is on God’s side is on the winning side and cannot lose; whoever is on the other side is on the losing side and cannot win. Here there is no chance, no gamble. There is freedom to choose which side we shall be on but no [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Popular Evangelicalism
“Popular evangelicalism has been selling out to the worldly spirit and worldly methods to a point where Hollywood now has more influence than Jerusalem ever had. Youth take for their examples not the saints of old but the stars of today. The chaste dignity and sparkling purity of true Christianity has been displaced by a [...]
Quotable Quotes – Tozer on Prevenient Grace
“Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. “Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him; imperfect it may be, but a [...]
