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A.W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer (1897 - 1963)

A "20th-century prophet" many called him during his lifetime. For 31 years A.W.Tozer was pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago. He was involved in the missionary alliance movement for most of his pulpit life. A.W. Tozer lived in the presence of God he saw clearly and he spoke as a prophet to the church. He sought for God's honor with the zeal of Elijah and mourned with Jeremiah at the apostasy of God's people.

Leonard Ravenhill was a close friend of pastor and writer A. W. Tozer and spoke of him as one of the most influential voices in the Church in America. A.W. Tozer's materials are a mainstay in Evangelical churches in our day and he is one of the most quoted authors. He was a prophet in his day and his writings are even more influential in our day. One of his books: The Pursuit of God, has had over 1 million copies sold world-wide.

Recommends these books by A.W. Tozer:
The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God by A.W. Tozer
Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience by A.W. Tozer
The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer


Aiden Wilson Tozer was born April 21, 1897 on a small farm in Western Pennsylvania, the third of six children. And although he would inspire millions with his preaching and writing, he was given very little education during his childhood.

A. W. Tozer was 66 when he died of a heart attack on May 12, 1963. Buried in a small cemetery in Akron, his tombstone simply and appropriately reads, "A Man of God." He left behind many books that continue to give Christians encouragement and guidance. His writings are as fresh today as when he was alive. His honest and colloquial humor has been known to sweep up congregations in gales of laughter. And his wisdom has left them silent and stunned. For almost 50 years Tozer walked with God, and even though he is gone, he continues to minister to those who are eager to experience God.

      A 20th-century prophet" they called him even in his lifetime. For 31 years he was pastor of Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, where his reputation as a man of God was citywide. Concurrently he became editor of Alliance Life, a responsibility he fulfilled until his death in 1963.

      His greatest legacy to the Christian world has been his 30 books. Because A.W. Tozer lived in the presence of God he saw clearly and he spoke as a prophet to the church. He sought for God's honor with the zeal of Elijah and mourned with Jeremiah at the apostasy of God's people.

      But he was not a prophet of despair. His writings are messages of concern. They expose the weaknesses of the church and denounce compromise. They warn and exhort. But they are messages of hope as well, for God is always there, ever faithful to restore and to fulfill His Word to those who hear and obey.

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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice - any choice will be the right one.
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The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
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The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.
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The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
topics: The Cross , Light  
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For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his own life.
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God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, "God, where art Thou?" It was God who cried, "Adam, where art thou?"
topics: Worship  
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I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
topics: Worship , Heaven  
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I wonder if there was ever a time when true spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us.
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We're here to be worshippers 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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Temos observado nas vidas uma reação dupla à tribulação: ou ela nos quebra no espírito, derretendo a dureza e nos conduzindo a Deus em nosso desespero, ou ela nos lança sobre nossos pobres recursos e raciocínios humanos. Isso por sua vez nos torna endurecidos no espírito, críticos e geralmente cínicos. Ela rouba o coração do grande privilégio de confiar em Deus e do desenvolvimento da vida em possibilidades ricas e úteis. Mel ou Fel?               A adversidade vai tornar você mais amargo, ou melhor. Veja a semelhança entre essas duas palavras da língua inglesa: bitter and better (amargo e melhor). Observe o que é necessário para mudar totalmente o sentido delas: apenas a letra “i” para a letra “e” (em Inglês). Querido irmãos, é o “Eu” (I em Inglês) que muda toda a questão. Quando o “Eu” é colocado fora da dificuldade, a vida fica melhor (better); mas quando o “Eu” é introduzido e ficamos envolvidos na adversidade, a vida se torna mais amarga (bitter). Frequentemente esse “Eu” entra no caminho. O ego pobre, pequeno e ferido leva uma bofetada e corre rua abaixo gritando para ganhar atenção. O precioso e pequeno ego assenta na sua porta e derrama lágrimas de auto piedade; seus olhos ficam vermelhos e inchados e ele não vê mais as coisas como elas são ou deveriam ser.               É necessário um coração tranqüilo, paz de espírito e visão clara (ou de longo alcance, se você preferir), para interpretar a tribulação em termos de força e viver elevado. Almas pequenas, pessoas pequenas, geralmente são feridas o tempo todo. O ego no interior ganha importância indevida e por isso ele é facilmente ferido ou adulado. Tais almas possuem um mundo muito pequeno e, desse modo, tudo se relaciona diretamente com o seu ego interior. Resumindo: pessoas assim passarão por momentos muito difíceis.               Frequentemente tais almas são pessoas que estão buscando justiça, imparcialidade e um ajuste adequado de vida. Parece que elas nunca aprendem. Não estamos aqui em busca de justiça; estamos aqui para viver. Se você espera ser um cristão espiritual e vitorioso, você precisa aprender imediatamente como retirar a justiça do seu vocabulário, no que diz respeito à sua vida. Nós não experimentamos a justiça agora. A noite do ajuste de contas do Sábado de Deus ainda não chegou.
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A adversidade vai tornar você mais amargo, ou melhor. Veja a semelhança entre essas duas palavras da língua inglesa: bitter and better (amargo e melhor). Observe o que é necessário para mudar totalmente o sentido delas: apenas a letra “i” para a letra “e” (em Inglês). Querido irmãos, é o “Eu” (I em Inglês) que muda toda a questão. Quando o “Eu” é colocado fora da dificuldade, a vida fica melhor (better); mas quando o “Eu” é introduzido e ficamos envolvidos na adversidade, a vida se torna mais amarga (bitter). Frequentemente esse “Eu” entra no caminho. O ego pobre, pequeno e ferido leva uma bofetada e corre rua abaixo gritando para ganhar atenção. O precioso e pequeno ego assenta na sua porta e derrama lágrimas de auto piedade; seus olhos ficam vermelhos e inchados e ele não vê mais as coisas como elas são ou deveriam ser.               É necessário um coração tranqüilo, paz de espírito e visão clara (ou de longo alcance, se você preferir), para interpretar a tribulação em termos de força e viver elevado. Almas pequenas, pessoas pequenas, geralmente são feridas o tempo todo. O ego no interior ganha importância indevida e por isso ele é facilmente ferido ou adulado. Tais almas possuem um mundo muito pequeno e, desse modo, tudo se relaciona diretamente com o seu ego interior. Resumindo: pessoas assim passarão por momentos muito difíceis.               Frequentemente tais almas são pessoas que estão buscando justiça, imparcialidade e um ajuste adequado de vida. Parece que elas nunca aprendem. Não estamos aqui em busca de justiça; estamos aqui para viver. Se você espera ser um cristão espiritual e vitorioso, você precisa aprender imediatamente como retirar a justiça do seu vocabulário, no que diz respeito à sua vida. Nós não experimentamos a justiça agora. A noite do ajuste de contas do Sábado de Deus ainda não chegou.
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If God cannot disturb us, He cannot move us. If He cannot move us, He cannot save us. If He cannot get us concerned about the things of God, He cannot do anything at all for us.
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The great labor of the Church has always been to get people to give serious attention to spiritual matters. A great many pastors and preachers do not worry about this at all, because they do not expect anything and, therefore, they do not get it. But a man of God, with the burden of the Holy Spirit on him, will want to stir the people to serious attention. Until serious attention has been given to the claims of Christ, it is for us as if the Bible had never been written.
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Wouldn’t you think that something so attractive would be at the forefront of every inquiring human being’s desire? There are stumbling blocks along the way, however, that are of such a nature as to keep out all but those who have an impassioned desire for the presence of God—a desire stronger than the draw of anything else in life. Penetrating the holy presence of God is the reward of fighting the good fight and overcoming all obstructions in the way. This all-consuming desire for God’s presence goes a long way in tackling the major hindrances a seeker might find. When the goal is in clear view, the obstacles become trivial. Let’s
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Only in the Bible do we begin to understand what these inward stirrings are and how to find entrance into the presence of God. A right understanding of the Bible opens to us the only path into the presence of God.
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Remember: You do not believe a thing rightly until you act in accordance with it. When you bring your life into line with your faith, you are a believer. But when your life is not in line with your faith, you are no true believer at all.
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We forgot that there are some things that we cannot get hold of with our minds. The mind is good -- God put it there. He gave us our heads, and it was not His intention that our heads would function just as a place to hang a hat. He gave us our heads, and He put brains in our heads, and that faculty we call the intellect has its own work to do. But that work is not the apprehending of divine things -- that is of the Holy Spirit. Let me remind you now that modern orthodoxy has make a great blunder in the erroneous assumption that spiritual truth can be intellectually perceived. There have been far-reaching conditions resulting from this concept -- and they are showing in our preaching, our praying, our singing, our activity and our thinking.
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Si hay algo en tu vida que es más grande que tu deseo de ser un cristiano lleno del Espíritu, nunca serás un cristiano lleno del Espíritu hasta que esto se haya resuelto. Si hay algo en tu vida más apremiante que tu anhelo de Dios, nunca serás un cristiano lleno del Espíritu.
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Cosas que ojo no vio, ni oído oyó, ni han subido en corazón de hombre, son las que Dios ha preparado para los que le aman.
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nunca podrás discernir a Jesús a partir del conocimiento histórico; es imposible. Es posible leer tu Nuevo Testamento y aun así nunca encontrar en él al Cristo vivo. Puedes estar convencido de que Él es el Hijo de Dios, y aun así nunca tener un encuentro con la persona viva que es Él.
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