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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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If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.
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We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.
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God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back then serve God with all your heart.
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To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.
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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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Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
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The natural man must know in order to believe The spiritual man must believe in order to know
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You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper!
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It is quite impossible to worship God without loving Him.
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Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.
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We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.
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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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The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring
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There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
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Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.
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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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We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.
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A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
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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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The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
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