Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

God is simple, everything else is complex

Your thoughts of God are too human

I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

It's a sad comment on humans that none of them are tolerable to one who can read their minds

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

All the problems of heaven and earth, though they were to confront us together and at once, would be nothing compared with that overwhelming problem of God: That He is; what He is like; and what we as moral beings must do about Him.

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.