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God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
Author
Clergyman
Theologian
Writer
Pennsylvania
United States
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Wounds
Deeply
Woman
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Cannot
Men
Greatly

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We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
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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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Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.
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You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.
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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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Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
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If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
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Trust God in the dark until the light returns.
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The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, God. The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.
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Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.
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Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
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God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.
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Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
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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 church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
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The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
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There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
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Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.
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