WIST

We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
Born After Midnight

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
Man – The Dwelling Place of God

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
Of God and Men

All things being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives.  In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
The Pursuit of God (1957)

If my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
The Pursuit of God, Forward (1957)

In our constant struggle to believe we are likely to overlook the simple fact that a bit of healthy disbelief is sometimes as needful as faith to the welfare of our souls. I would go further and say that we would do well to cultivate a reverent skepticism. It will keep us out of a thousand bogs and quagmires where others who lack it sometimes find themselves. It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
The Root of the Righteous

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man’s character.

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
The Root of the Righteous, ch. 33 (1955)
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Credulity, on the other hand, never honors God, for it shows as great a readiness to believe anybody as to believe God Himself. The credulous person will accept anything as long as it is unusual, and the more unusual it is the more ardently he will believe. Any testimony will be swallowed with a straight face if it only has about it some element of the eerie, the preternatural, the unearthly ….

A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American minister, author [Aiden Wilson Tozer]
The Root of the Righteous, ch. 34