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It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

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 we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.
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The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart
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Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.
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Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
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If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.
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The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender.
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My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
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It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.
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The only fear I have is to fear to get out of the will of God. Outside of the will of God, there's nothing I want, and in the will of God there's nothing I fear, for God has sworn to keep me in His will. If I'm out of his will that's another matter. But if I'm in His will, He's sworn to keep me.
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As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.
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God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.
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Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
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The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
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It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.
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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
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The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
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Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
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If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.
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The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.
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