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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.

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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A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
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We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
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When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.
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I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians we are acting like cowards!
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Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.
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Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
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If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
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Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple.
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As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
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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 cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
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Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
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Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
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God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
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We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.
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Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.
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God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
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