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I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
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Pennsylvania
United States
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Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.
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The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.
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Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.
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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
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I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.
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Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.
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It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
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Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
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For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.
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My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.
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If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.
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As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
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Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
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There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.
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Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.
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For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.
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The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
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When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
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The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.
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The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
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