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By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

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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Clergyman
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Pennsylvania
United States
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
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When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.
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When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
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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 more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
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Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
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What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.
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What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.
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The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
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We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
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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.
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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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In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.
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The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.
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What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?
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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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True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.
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In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
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You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.
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