Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.