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Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.
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
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
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Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.
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Oh, if we would only remember who God is!
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But the sons of this world have not God they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.
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God works as long as His people live daringly He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
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Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.
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We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our spiritual comprehension. The One with whom we deal is the One who embodies faithfulness and truth-the One who cannot lie.
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
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We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
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Where God is not glorified, that place is sick
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The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.
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Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
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The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment' to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest.
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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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Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.
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Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.
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It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.
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What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden?
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