Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.

I guess that's the business of devotees - to make you think of God.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration