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

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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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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.
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My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.
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I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
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The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
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The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
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There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.
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The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through and that is a mighty difference indeed.
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The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.
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Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
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Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
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The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.
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We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
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An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
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If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
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Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
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To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.
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If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face.
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America is laughing her way to Hell.
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Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
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