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We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

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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Worship is why we are born and why we are born again.
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We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
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The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
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While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.
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Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.
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It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.
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Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
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A Christian should put away all defense and make no attempt to excuse himself either in his own eyes or before the Lord. Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself.
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When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
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