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For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

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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Pennsylvania
United States
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If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.
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The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.
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The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
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If you want to be changed, read a good book.
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God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
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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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The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.
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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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We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.
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No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.
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We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
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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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God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
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He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee. God is not contained: He contains.
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How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
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No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.
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Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
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One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
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