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For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
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Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.
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Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.
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We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.
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Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
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I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months
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After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
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Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. Believing, then, is directing the hearts' attention to Jesus. It is lifting the mind to 'behold the Lamb of God,' and never ceasing that beholding for the rest of our lives.
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We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
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The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!
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Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.
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Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.
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Refuse to be average.
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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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God's gifts are many His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.
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The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
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