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What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

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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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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.
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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 Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.
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There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.
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It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
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Faith creates nothing it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
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We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.
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God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.
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Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.
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Christians must understand most emphatically that the world around us is in conflict with the Word within us.
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...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.
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Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
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Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most 2. What we think about most 3. How we use our money 4. What we do with our leisure time 5. The company we enjoy 6. Who and what we admire 7. What we laugh at.
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No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
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We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.
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Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
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God's plan will continue on God's schedule.
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The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.
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The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
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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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