Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

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

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.