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Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
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Clergyman
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Pennsylvania
United States
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
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Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.
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Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.
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I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined he can't handle the One to whom I'm united he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.
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The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.
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Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.
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The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.
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The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
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O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.
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A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.
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The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.
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Man must choose his world
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We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
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History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
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The natural man must know in order to believe The spiritual man must believe in order to know
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One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
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Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.
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...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The work of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.
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Love is both a principle and an emotion it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.
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Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.
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