"To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it. If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Ghost so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Indeed I wonder whether there is anything taught in any seminary on earth that could not be learned by a brigand or a swindler as well as by a consecrated Christian... It does not strain my imagination to think of Judas Iscariot as coming out of school with a Th.B., if such a thing had been offered in his day." The Need For Divine Illumination

"When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate." The Divine Conquest

"There is a difference between the intellectual knowledge of God and the Spirit-revealed knowledge... modern orthodoxy has made a great blunder in the erroneous assumption that spiritual truths can be intellectually perceived... until a man receives that illumination -- that inward enlightenment -- he will not have anything because Bible study does not, of itself, lift the veil or penetrate it... there is the Christ whom only the Spirit can reveal... you may be convinced that He is the Son of God and still never find Him as the living Person He is. Jesus Christ must be revealed by the Holy Ghost -- no man knows the things of God but by the Holy Ghost... the final flash that introduces your heart to Jesus must be by that illumination of the Holy Spirit Himself, or it isn't done at all." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"You cannot read the Scriptures with a spirit of Adam, for the Scriptures were inspired by the Spirit of God. One little flash of the Holy Ghost will give you more inward, divine illumination on the meaning of the text than all the commentators that ever commented." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"In the Scriptures and in church history, persons filled with the Spirit always knew they were filled, and it was an instantaneous act, not a gradual filling... God does not come rushing into a human heart unless He knows that He is the answer and fulfillment to the greatest, most overpowering desire of that life." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I wouldn't believe an archangel if he came to me with a wingspread of twelve feet, shining like an atomic bomb just at the moment of its explosion, if he couldn't give me chapter and verse... The Holy Spirit who inspired the Scriptures will expect obedience to the Scriptures... The Holy Spirit will expect obedience to the Word of God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me solemnly tell you that the Holy Ghost never works with mere talent... much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a mild case of orthodox religion grafted onto a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Holy Ghost wrote the Word, and if you make much of the Word, He will make much of you." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The world knows nothing about the Holy Ghost... The best that we have in the world, our universities, our humanitarian societies, the best we have apart from the new birth, apart from the presence of God in the life of a man, is only corruption, and the wrath of God is upon it. The world cannot receive the Spirit of God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I think the difference is in the emphasis of the major miracle which we ought to expect in genuine Christian conversion. Those old-timers would not have believed if a major miracle had not taken place. They would never have been willing to accept a pale and apologetic kind of believing on the Son of God. They insisted on a miracle taking place within the human breast. They knew what Peter meant when he said that the Lord God has begotten us unto a living hope." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Brethren, Let's not forget that the new birth is a miracle -- a major miracle! Peter in describing it relates it to the miracle of Jesus Christ rising from the dead. So there is a divine principle here -- the fact that a man truly born again is a man who has experienced regenesis, supernatural regenesis. Just as God generated the heavens and the earth in the beginning. He regenerates again in the breast of the believing man!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Brethren, creation is the setting forth of Jesus Christ as Lord and Sovereign, for Jesus Christ is the purpose of God in creation!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me tell you straight out that Jesus Christ will never stand at the right side of a plus sign. If you will insist upon adding some plus to your faith in Jesus Christ, He will walk away in His holy dignity. He will ever refuse to be considered the other part of a plus sign. If your trust is in the plus -- something added -- then you do not possess Jesus Christ." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The purpose and work of redemption in Christ Jesus is to raise man as much above the level of Adam as Christ Himself is above the level of Adam." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is an amazing thing that Jesus Christ claimed that He never left the bosom of the Father. He said the Son of Man, who is in the bosom of the Father, hath declared it. While Jesus was upon earth, walking as a man among men, by the mystery of the ever-present God and the indivisible substance of Deity, He could remain in the bosom of the Father, and He did." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Man's hopeless condition cannot be perfected by some process of social regeneration -- it must be brought about through the miraculous process of individual regeneration." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Contrary to the opinion held by many would-be religious leaders in the world, Christianity was never intended to be an ethical system with Jesus Christ at the head... it is Jesus Christ Himself that Christianity offers you... all Christianity offers is Jesus Christ the Lord, and Him alone -- for He is enough!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Jesus Christ is no longer on trial before men - men are now on trial before Him!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The believer's faith in the deity and person of Jesus does not rest upon his ability to comb through history and arrive at logical conclusions concerning historical facts. The Holy Ghost will blaze in on him like a lightning flash, blinding him with the wonder of it!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Saving faith is not a conclusion drawn from facts presented; saving faith is a gift of God to a penitent man or woman." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"There isn't anything quite so chilling, quite so disheartening as a man without the Holy Spirit preaching about the Holy Spirit." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"In that great and terrible day, there will be those white with shock when they find that they have depended upon a mental assent to Christianity instead of upon the miracle of the new birth." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Whenever I find men running to science to find support for the Bible, I know they are rationalists and not true believers!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The scientist has nothing he can tell me about Jesus Christ, our Lord. There is nothing he can add, and I do not need to appeal to him." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"A Christian is one who dedicates himself to God to inhabit another world, and that's why we get called many of the names that we do!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The tree that is blown down in the storm is rotten in its heart or it wouldn't be blown down. And the church that falls because of persecution is a church that was dead before it fell." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Worship seeks union with its beloved, and an active effort to close the gap between the heart and the God it adores is worship at its best." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Contrary to the opinion held by many would-be religious leaders in the world, Christianity was never intended to be an ethical system with Jesus Christ at the head... all Christianity offers is Jesus Christ the Lord, and Him alone - for He is enough." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Paul said if any man thinketh that he amounts to anything, let him know that he won't amount to anything until he gets over it! That's paraphrased, but that is approximately what Paul said." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I am of the firm opinion that no church should be occupied with politics, literature, philosophy, art. It is our belief that the church - and that must also mean any local church - should be devoted exclusively to God and things eternal." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"When a man of God speaks as a prophet, his message is freighted with wisdom and power. When he speaks for a party, God withdraws His power and lets His servant speak without wisdom... Let him  seek to identify his prophetic office with politics, or place his power at the disposal of a party, and he violates his office and confuses his own face. Then he speaks as a discredited prophet, and not all his pretensions to omniscience can disguise the Babel in his voice." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We need to remember that it is possible to have some kind of external religious experience that immunizes you to the new birth, and puts you where you will never be born again, because you think you are already born again." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The spiritual faculties of the unregenerate man lie asleep in his nature, unused and for every purpose dead; that is the stroke which has fallen upon us by sin. They may be quickened to active life again by the operation of the Holy Spirit in regeneration; that is one of the immeasurable benefits which come to us through Christ's atoning work on the cross." The Pursuit Of God

"I hear people testify that they give their tithe because God makes their nine-tenths go farther than the ten-tenths. That is not spirituality; that is just plain business. I insist that it is a dangerous thing to associate the working of God with our prosperity and success down here." I Talk Back To The Devil

"I hear people testify about their search for the deeper Christian life... But there isn't any such thing. There is a cross." I Talk Back To The Devil

"Supernatural grace has been the teaching of the Church from Pentecost to the present hour." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Just the moment that a man's experience in Christ can be broken down and explained by the psychologists, we have a church member on our hands - and not a Christian." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"You can find more carnal, unregenerate, self-centered characters who have religion and are sensitive toward it than you can bury in the Grand Canyon." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"All of the Christians I meet who are amounting to anything for God are Christians who are very much out of key with their age - very, very much out of tune with their generation... If you can fit into it too comfortably, I am forced to wonder whether the miracle has ever been wrought in your life." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If you are going to heaven, you had better begin to live like it now, and if you are going to die like a Christian, you had better live like a Christian now." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The difference between faith as it is found in the New Testament and faith as it is found now is that faith in the New Testament actually produced something - there was a confirmation of it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We have religion without guilt, and religion without guilt just tries to make God a big pal of man. But religion without guilt is a religion that cannot escape hell for it deceives and finally destroys all who are a part of it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"God, being who He is, must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else... Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God... The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth... will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain... Yet popular Christianity has as one of its most effective talking points the idea that God exists to help people get ahead in this world." The Dwelling Place of God

"Do you realize that your faith is a gift from God? You should look upon your faith as a miracle. It is the ability God gives lost men and women to trust and obey our Saviour and Lord... And Jesus is the author of our faith." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"It is quite possible to lead people into the mistake of placing their faith in faith itself... It is not proper to magnify faith if in doing so we forget that our confidence as believers is not in the power of faith but in the person and work of our Saviour, Jesus Christ." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Faith does not rest upon promises. Faith rests upon character. Faith must rest in confidence upon the One who makes the promises... we must be concerned with the person and character of God and not just with His promises. Through promises we learn what God has willed to us, we learn what we may claim as our heritage, we learn how we should pray. But faith itself must rest upon the character of our God." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Christian believers have an answer born from their scriptural perspective. They are not afraid to declare that at the door of the kingdom of God man's reason is dethroned. For those who are living a life of faith and have found fellowship with God, human reason is no longer king. Instead, reason becomes a servant... Once those persons enter the kingdom of God by faith, reason becomes a useful servant -- no longer ruling them as a false god." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"God Himself, through the Holy Spirit, points out a universal human problem: the natural brotherhood of human beings is a sinful brotherhood. It is a brotherhood of all who are spiritually lost." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Enoch could have written a book on human loneliness... Believing Christians with true faith in God know very well the meaning of loneliness." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"If we are satisfied to settle down and become weak victims amid the sins of our generation, we will die with our generation." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"The Christian gospel always has been and must continue to be a gospel of alarm. The Christian gospel cannot always be a gospel of honey and sweetness!... The gospel message is a gospel of hope and good news to those who respond and believe. But the gospel message is starkly plain to those who do not believe." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Holy fear is a kind of faith closely associated with high moral wisdom. It can only be the part of wisdom for a human being to fear irrecoverable spiritual loss. It is a wise kind of fear that is willing to consider the meaning of permanent and eternal separation from God, the source of all good." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"In my own contemplations, though, I have found great comfort in the doctrine of prevenient grace. Prevenient grace, simply stated, is the belief that before a sinful man or woman can seek God, God must first have sought the man or woman... If God had not in His own way first moved toward Abraham, Abraham would never have moved toward God." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Most people seem to have come to terms with an acceptance of religion if it does not have the cross of Christ within it... But when God calls out men and women, their faith will be an offense to the world." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"The greater your contentment with your daily circumstances in this world, the greater your defection from the ranks of God's pilgrims en route to a city whose architect and builder is God Himself!" Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"God has never in the past done anything good in response to faith that He is unwilling to do again. Let me turn that around and say it this way: Everything good that God has done in the past in response to faith, He is willing to do again. We need only believe and obey." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"The only person who is incurably sick is the one who thinks he or she is well." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"It is hard for a rich church to understand that her Lord was a poor man. Were He to appear today on our city streets as He appeared in Jerusalem, He would in all probability be picked up for vagrancy. Were He to teach here what He taught the multitudes about money, he would be blacklisted by churches, Bible conferences and missionary societies everywhere as unrealistic, fanatical and dangerous to organized religion." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"To court a Christian for his financial contributions is as evil a thing as to marry a man for his money." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Anyone can do the possible; add a bit of courage and zeal and some may do the phenomenal; only Christians are obliged to do the impossible." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Today we evangelicals are showing signs that we are becoming too rich and too prominent for our own good. With a curious disregard for the lessons of history we are busy fighting for recognition by the world and acceptance by society... Evangelical Christianity is fast becoming the religion of the bourgeoisie. The well-to-do, the upper middle classes, the politically prominent, the celebrities are accepting our religion by the thousands and parking their expensive cars outside our church doors, to the uncontrollable glee of our religious leaders who seem completely blind to the fact that the vast majority of these new patrons of the Lord of glory have not altered their moral habits in the slightest nor given any evidence of true conversion that would have been accepted by the saintly fathers who built the churches." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"I would rather be a serous-minded dolt concerned about eternal life than to be an overpaid jester with nothing better to do than to make men laugh and forget that they must die and come to judgment." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"To the one who is advanced enough to hear it I would say, never let anyone become necessary to you... never attach yourself to any man as a parasite. Adopt no man as a guru... I repeat, never let any man become necessary to you. Christ alone is necessary. Apart from Him we are completely wretched; without Him we cannot live and dare not die." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Instead of putting the cross on that hill outside Jerusalem, Jesus puts the cross in our lives, where it belongs... When He arose from the dead and ascended to the right hand of God the Father, that wooden cross had no further meaning in the mind of God. None at all!... But there remains a very real cross. It is the cross you take and the cross I take as we follow our Lord Jesus who willingly took His cross... When that cross on the hill has been transformed by the miraculous grace of the Holy Spirit into the cross in the heart, then we begin to know something of its true meaning and it will become to us the cross of power." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Only God is holy absolutely; all other beings can be holy only in relative degrees. The angels in heaven do not possess God's holiness. They are created beings and they are contented to reflect the glory of God. That is their holiness." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"God's holy nature is unique. He is of a substance not shared by any other being. Hence, God can be known only as He reveals Himself. There is absolutely no other way for us to know Him." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"The differences between the churchly world and the followers of the Lamb are so basic that they can never be reconciled and they can never be negotiated. God never promised His believing people that they would become a majority in this earthly scene." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"When we stand up for Jesus, it means that there are some things that we will be against. This is the way it is in this world. We do not deny it, and we do not apologize for it." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"It can be fairly said that the institutional church is largely known in the world as an organization and not as a living organism. The institutional church offers many good things to its members, but it does not necessarily recognize the true glory of Christ's life within. It lives and thrives on sociability, amusements, group activities -- things that may be innocent and pleasant and nice but which lack the glories of the church of the living God." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"If those who call themselves the people of God would give up their carnality and worldly-mindedness, if they would live with the reality that Jesus is victor at the heavenly controls, they could be the kind of New Testament church that makes glad the heart of God. There would be such an overflow of the Holy Spirit's gifts and graces that their spirituality would be effective in every contact and activity, just as it was in New Testament times." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Everything that is morally commanded in the Ten Commandments still comprises the moral principles that are the will of God for His people. As believing, regenerated Christians, we must acknowledge that God's moral will for His people -- then and now -- has not changed." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Frankly, in my judgment there are too many "inspirational" preachers in our day who are trying to cheer up their listeners without using sound, biblical methods." Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"Probably you have had some contact with the appeals of ministers who have espoused the cause of liberal Christian theology... They want the spiritual virtues without dealing with the root hindrances to such virtues. They want men and women to be more like Jesus, but they want nothing to do with the new birth from above that imprints Jesus' image on people's lives. They want humankind to be forgiving and forgiven, but they do not recognize the biblical necessity for atonement, regeneration and justification. They want the blessing and the display of the fruits of the Spirit, but they reject the Bible's declaration that fruits are related to the fullness of the Spirit. Actually, they seem to expect fruit and harvest without any tree at all!" Jesus, Author Of Our Faith

"God sees in Jesus Christ what you would have been! He sees that in His perfect humanity, not His deity, for you and I could never be divine in that sense." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"God no longer loves the devil... the time will come when God will no longer love lost men... The day will come when he that is filthy will be getting filthier still, and therefore, the day will come when lost man will no longer be loved by God Almighty... What a warning to a man selling out to sin and to the transfiguring power of evil and iniquity, which in the end makes him a devil and not a man, and thus beyond the love of God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"What the combined forces of hell can't do, the church can do. Love of money, love of the world, unconfessed iniquity, private sins that no one dreams we have -- these are destroying the Church of Christ." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The Bible links faith to expression and faith that never gets expression is not a Bible faith... You say, 'Well, I worship God in my heart.' I wonder if you do. I wonder if you are simply just excusing the fact that you haven't generated enough spiritual heat to get your mouth open." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"It is not whether we can understand it or not; it is whether God said it nor not." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"No oriental monarch ever ruled his cowering subjects with any more cruel tyranny than things, visible things, audible things, tangible things, rule mankind... It seems incredible that we who were made for many worlds should accept this one world as our ultimate home." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Christ is not a member of any political party. He stands outside of and above every party. His kingdom was not of this world." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cure a man of dishonesty, it cannot guarantee his entrance into the kingdom of heaven." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Whenever any humor takes holy things for its object, that humor is devilish at once... The eternal, universal Presence of the luminous Christ is not a joking matter" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If we could have the Apostle Paul on tape recordings and let him stand here and preach, he could no more for you than the Holy Ghost can do, with The Book and the human conscience." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Peace of heart does not come from denying that there is trouble, but comes from rolling your trouble on God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"When God works a miracle within the human breast, heaven becomes the Christian's home immediately, and he is drawn to it as the bird is drawn in the springtime to fly north." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"It is sad to us that some people have never heard the voice of the Shepherd. His voice is as tender as a lullaby and as strong as the wind and as mighty as the sound of many waters... Thank God for those in the churches who would rather hear the voice of Jesus than to hear the voice of the greatest preacher or the best singer in the world. Thank God for those who would rather be conscious of the Divine Presence than to be in the presence of the greatest man in the world." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I think that this modern neo-intellectual movement that is trying to resurrect the church by means of learning is about as far off the track as it is possible to be." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If you have learned to worship the Son of Man, you won't worship other men... We have to push in past the veil until the illumination of the Holy Spirit fills our heart and we are learning at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of men." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The Holy Spirit rules out and excludes all Adam's flesh, all human brightness, all that scintillating human personality, human ability and human efficiency. It makes Christianity depend upon a perpetual miracle. The man of God, the true Spirit-filled man of God, is a perpetual miracle." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I want God Himself or else I will go out and be something other than a Christian." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I believe that Pentecost did not come and go, but that Pentecost came and stayed." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If we continue to go the way we have been going in fundamentalist and evangelical circles, the fundamentalists will all be liberals and most of the liberals will all be unitarian." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We will never know more about God than the Spirit teaches us. We will never know any more about Jesus than the Spirit teaches us, because there is only the Spirit to do the teaching." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There are many people in our churches who would like to think that they are filled with the Holy Ghost, even though they don't know it. This is a most shocking thing, and I am sure that this is one of the attitudes through which Satan opposes the doctrine of the genuine Spirit-filled life... Let me say that I do not find in the Old Testament or in the New Testament, neither in Christian biography, in church history or in personal Christian testimonies, the experience of any person who was ever filled with the Holy Ghost and who didn't know it! I can be dogmatic about this on the basis of deep study. No one was ever filled with the Holy Ghost who didn't know that he had been so filled!... In the Scriptures and in church history, persons filled with the Spirit always knew they were filled, and it was an instantaneous act, not a gradual filling... God does not come rushing into a human heart unless He knows that He is the answer and fulfillment to the greatest, most overpowering desire of that life." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I find in the New Testament that the believers had God, and they usually didn't have very much else." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that you can't be filled with the Spirit, the church would be crowded out." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There is no use talking about being filled with the Spirit and waling in the Spirit unless we are willing to give up all to obtain all." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"To glorify Jesus is the business of the church, and to glorify Jesus is the work of the Holy Ghost." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I really have no place in my sympathies for those Christians who neglect the Word or ignore the Word or get revelations apart from the Word." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Some teach that if you are filled with the Spirit, you will have miracles, forgetting that the disciples had the power of miracles before they were filled with the Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit is not necessary to make miracle workers. The power of the Holy Spirit is something infinitely higher, grander and more wonderful than that." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"You will notice that throughout the four Gospels the disciples were asking questions, while in the book of Acts and after Pentecost they were answering questions. That is the difference between the man who is Spirit-filled and the man who is not." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"When a man of God stands to speak, he ought to have the authority of God on him so that he makes the people responsible to listen to him. When they will not listen to him, they are accountable to God for turning away from the divine Word. In place of that needed authority, we have tabby cats with their claws carefully trimmed in the seminary, so they can paw over the congregations and never scratch them at all. They have had their claws trimmed and are just as soft and sweet as can be." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I believe in the authority of God, and I believe if a man doesn't have it, he should go away and pray and wait until he gets the authority and then stand up and speak even if he has to begin by preaching on a soap box on a street corner." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Some of the churches now advertise courses on how to pray. How ridiculous! That is like giving a course on how to fall in love." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Evangelical rationalism will kill the truth just as quickly as liberalism will... This evangelical rationalism will kill the truth just as quickly as liberalism will, though in a more subtle way... The evangelical rationalist today is still wearing our uniform. He comes right in wearing our uniform and says what the Pharisees said while Jesus was on earth, and they were His worst enemies... They have the text and the code and the creed, and to them that is the truth. So they pass it on to others. The result is we are dying spiritually." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Is revelation enough or must there be illumination? Is this Bible an inspired book? Is it a revealed book? Of course you and I believe that it is a revelation, that God spoke all these words and holy men spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost... But revelation is not enough! There must be illumination before revelation can get to your soul. It is not enough that I hold an inspired book in my hands. I must have an inspired heart. There is the difference, in spite of the evangelical rationalist who insists that revelation is enough." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There is a divine inward illumination the Holy Ghost must give us or we don't know what the truth means... The body of truth, the inspired text, is not enough -- there must be an inward illumination." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I have no doubt that we try to ease many people into the kingdom, so called, who never get into the kingdom at all. They are jockeyed into believing in the text, and they do, but they have never been illuminated by the Holy Ghost. They have never been renewed within their being. They never get into the kingdom at all." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Christianity is not something you just reach up and grab, as some have taught." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Paul says (1 Cor. 2:4-5) 'My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.' Now the theological rationalist understands that in this way: he says that your faith should stand not in the wisdom of man but in the Word of God: But that is not what Paul said. He said that your faith should stand in the POWER of God. That is quite a different thing." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Your faith can stand in the text and you can be as dead as the proverbial doornail, but when the power of God moves in on the text and sets the sacrifice on fire, then you have Christianity. We try to call that revival, but it snot revival at all. It is simply New Testament Christianity." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If a sinner goes in to the altar and a worker with a marked New Testament argues him into the kingdom, the devil will meet him two blocks down the street and argue him out of it again. But if he has an inward illumination and he has that witness within because the Spirit answers to the blood, you can't argue with that man." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The man of faith can go into the wilderness and get on his knees and command heaven -- God is in  that. The man who dare to stand and let his preaching cost him something -- God is in that. The Christian who is willing to put himself in a place where he must get the answer from God and God alone -- the Lord is in that!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We do have evangelical rationalists now who insist upon trying to reduce everything down to where it can be explained and proved -- with the result that we are rationalizing faith. This is the manner in which we seek to pull Almighty God down to the low level of the human reason." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The human heart by nature is filled with unbelief. It was belief and not disobedience which was the first sin. While disobedience was the first recorded sin, back of the act of disobedience there was the sin of unbelief, or the act of disobedience would not have taken place." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Faith does not rest upon promises. Faith rests upon character. Faith must rest in confidence upon the One who made the promise. It was written of Abraham that he staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but waxed strong in faith giving glory to God. The glory went to God, not to the promise." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"A Christian is no Christian until he is all Christian, until he has reached the point of no return." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"No one can know truth except those who obey truth." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Truth is not a text. Truth in in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Ghost to bring truth to a human soul. You can memorize a text, my brother, but the truth must come from the Holy Ghost through the text. Faith cometh by hearing the Word, but faith is also the gift of God the Holy Ghost." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Conscience never deals with theories. Conscience always deals with right and wrong, and the relation of the individual to that which is right or wrong... Christ is in the world, and His secret presence is the ground of human conscience. It is a moral awareness." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Some people are still wishing that they could have lived in Jesus' day, so they could have heard His voice and His teaching. They forget that there were thousands who heard Jesus and yet they had no idea what He was talking about. They forget that some of His own disciples had to wait for the Holy Ghost at Pentecost to know what Jesus had been talking about." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"False doctrine can have no power upon a good conscience." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"You can go to a priest and he can give you absolution, but he has only buried your conscience under a little religious rag!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"In the kingdom of God there will be no darkness, and in hell there will be no light." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The truth is just the truth -- it never has to worry about its image." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Many a husband has learned to say, 'Yes, dear, yes dear', but when the wife is not there, you should hear what he says to the goldfish." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The woman of Samaria met our Lord at the well, and the Gospel account of that which took place within her soul, and the spontaneous, contagious witness that followed, is rich with spiritual lessons for every one of us... Why was He willing to reveal so much more about Himself in this setting than He did in other encounters during His earthly ministry?... I don't know all the of the Saviour's reasons that day at the well. I only know that His revelation of Himself to the Samaritan woman constituted an everlasting rebuke to human self-righteousness." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Every person that ever receive anything from God must have a conscious need, a conscious and vital sense of lack." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"You might just as well try to get fat on what someone else eats as to try to get to heaven on some else's testimony." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Jacob was a crooked fellow... In every way, Esau was the finer man by nature. But in Esau, there was no approach through the top side of his soul, no open window there. It was Jacob, the crooked one, who met God and became Israel, because the top side of his soul was open to God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"A person that has to be picked out of the shell, that has to be guided by red lines and blue lines under the Bible verses, urged and pushed and psychologized into the kingdom of God never really gets in. There must be a revelation to the heart. There must be an encounter with Christ. There must be that sudden engaging of the soul with Jesus Christ, the Lord." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There has never really been a time in history when people were good, but there was a time when the masses of mankind were ashamed of being evil." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The church and the world have become so mixed up that it is hard to tell one from the other." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There is so little filling of our vessels these days because there is so very little of emptying." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If we would only stop trying to make the Holy Spirit our servant and begin to live in His life as the fish lives in the sea, we would enter into the riches of glory about which we know nothing." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The world is making a lot of offers to the church, but we don't need the world! Even some of my friends lead me to believe that I stand pretty much alone in all this. But I also know that I am telling a truth which will stand when the world is on fire: that the world has nothing that the Christian church needs." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The Spirit cannot fill whom He cannot separate, and whom He cannot fill, He cannot make holy." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"It is a solemn and frightening thing in this world of sin and flesh and devils, to realize that about eighty or ninety percent of the people whom God is testing will flunk this test! The Lord will do His own sorting out, and all of us should be aware that we are in a time when every day is a day of testing." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The devoted and committed person who takes the cross and follows the Lord does not ask what the consequences will be, neither does he argue about God's plan and God's wisdom." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Our Lord is more than able to take care of our past. He pardons instantly and forgives completely." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We are getting so well-rounded and so broadly symmetrical that we forget that every superior soul that has done exploits for God was considered extreme in many cases and even deranged." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I believe in prevenient grace, and I don't believe that any person can ever be nudged or pushed or jostled into the kingdom of God or into the deeper life except the Holy Ghost does it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"We could never have created ourselves and we could never have redeemed ourselves. We cannot talk our selves into getting a longing for God. It has to come from God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Paul knew something that many Christians still have not learned -- that the human heart is idolatrous and will worship anything it can possess. Therein lies the danger of the "good" things... It may be something good, but it gets between you and God -- whether it be property or family or reputation or security or your life itself... He also warned us about trusting earthly security rather than putting our complete confidence in God." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"How can God do His work in people who seem to think that Christianity is just another way of getting things from God? I hear people testify that they give their tithe because God makes their nine tenths go farther than the ten tenths. That is not spirituality; that is just plain business. I insist that it is a dangerous thing to associate the working of God with our prosperity and success down here. I cannot promise that if you will follow the Lord you will soon experience financial prosperity, because that is not what He promised His disciples." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Yes, there is a dark night of the soul. There are few Christians willing to go into this dark night and that is why there are so few who enter into the light. It is impossible for them ever to know the morning because they will not endure the night." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Some people in reading the Bible say they cannot understand why Elijah and other men had such active power with the living God. It is quite simple. God heard Elijah because Elijah had heard God. God did according the word of Elijah because Elijah had done according to the word of God. You cannot separate the two." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"All Christians living in full obedience will experience the cross and find themselves exercised in spirit very frequently. If they know their own hearts, they will be prepared to wrestle with the cross when it comes." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"The children of God must be ready for everything the cross brings or we will surely fail the test! It is God's desire to so deal with us about all of the things that the world admire and praises that we will see them in their true light. He will treat us without pity because He desires to raise us without measure, just as He did with His own Son on the cross!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Willingness to suffer for Jesus' sake -- this is what we have lost from the Christian church. We want our Easter to come without the necessity of a Good Friday. We forget that before the Redeemer could rise and sing among His brethren He must first bow His head and suffer among His brethren." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Jesus Christ HIMSELF is the deeper life, and as I plunge on into the knowledge of the triune God, my heart moves on into the blessedness of His fellowship. This means that there is less of me and more of God, thus my spiritual life deepens, and I am strengthened in the knowledge of His will." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"Jesus Christ is everything that the Godhead is." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"If God gives you a garden without giving Himself, He is giving you a garden with a serpent." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I feel that we must repudiate this great, modern wave of seeking God for His benefits... It seems that Christian believers have been going through a process of indoctrination and brainwashing, so it has become easy for us to adopt a kind of creed that makes God to be our servant instead of our being God's servant... So many are busy using God. Use God to get a job. Use God to give us safety. Use God to give us peace of mind. Use God to obtain success in business. Use God to provide heaven at last. Brethren, we ought to learn -- and learn it very soon -- that it is much better to have God first and have God Himself, even if we have only a thin dime, than to have all the riches and all the influence in the world and not have God... Have you had any part in this cheapening of the Gospel by making God your servant?" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"God does have a stake in each of us, and it is for His own sake that He will lift us up. He is not going to bless us for our own sake -- He is going to bless us for Jesus' sake and for the sake of His own name. If you think that there is anyone in the world so good that God could do something for that person's sake, you don't know sin; and if you think there is anything that God will not do for you for His sake and for His name, you don't know God!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"There is nothing that Jesus has ever done for any of His disciples that He will not do for any other of His disciples! Where did the dividers-of-the-Word-of-Truth get their teaching that all the gifts of the Spirit ended when the last apostle died? They have never furnished chapter and verse for that." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol I

"I mention a few other contradictions about the man, Peter. He is said by a portion the Christian church to be the vicar of Christ on earth, and yet Peter himself never seemed to have found out about it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Christian, the genuine Christian, realizes that he is indeed a lonely soul in the middle of a world which affords him no fellowship... This sense of not belonging is a part of our Christian heritage. That sense of belonging in another world and not belonging to this one steals into the Christian bosom and marks him off as being different from the people around him." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Bible does not tells us to believe in an office or a work, but to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the Person who has done that work and holds those offices." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I would insist that we do not have the right of self-determination because God has given us only the power to choose evil. Seeing that God is a holy God and we are moral creatures having the power but not the right to choose evil, no man has any right to lie. We have the power to lie but no man has the right to lie." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Nowhere are we ever led to believe that we can use Jesus as a Saviour and not own Him as our Lord. He is the Lord and as the Lord He saves us, because He has all of the offices of Saviour and Christ and High Priest and Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption... I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world, a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or who will not be Lord at all!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Lord will not save those whom he cannot command!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"If we believe the New Testament we must surely believe that the new birth is a major miracle, as truly a miracle of God as was the first creation, for the new birth is actually the creating of another man in the heart where another man had been." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"We are still living in a wicked and adulterous generation and I must confess that the Christians I meet who really amount to anything for the Saviour are very much out of key and out of tune with their generation." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"When God sent Judas Iscariot to hell He did not violate mercy and when God forgave Peter it was not in violation of justice. Everything that God does is with the full protection of all of His infinite attributes." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Whenever Satan has reason to fear a truth very gravely, he produces a counterfeit." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"In the context of the Christian church, we are now told to gossip the gospel and sell Jesus to people." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I do not dismiss the matter of feeling and you can quote me on that if it is worth it." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Bible has very few kind things to say about money and earthly possessions and it is most frank in its expressions against the heaping up of treasures." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"God has said He will exalt you in due time, but remember, He is referring to His time and not yours." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The life in the Spirit is such a different life that some of your former associates will probably discuss the question of whether or not you are mentally disturbed." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is an interesting thing that when he wants to get up, the Christian always starts down, for God's way up is always down, even though that is contrary to common sense. It is also contrary to the finest wisdom on the earth, because the foolish things of God are wiser than anything on this earth." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"He may be poor -- and if he is a real Christian he usually is -- and yet he will always make others rich." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The true Christian fears God with a trembling reverence and yet he is not afraid of God at all." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me warn you that many preachers and Bible teachers will answer to God some day for encouraging curious speculations about the return of Christ and failing to stress the necessity for loving His appearing... The prophetic teacher who engages in speculation to excite the curiosity of his hearers without providing them with a moral application is sinning even as he preaches." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Preachers and evangelists have been known to have exaggerated the numbers and the results of their Christian assemblies... But on behalf of God honoring honesty in our daily lives, it needs to be said that any lie is of its father, the devil, whether it is told in a church service or anywhere else." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Knowing the power of this gospel, I am willing to put myself on record that I would rather be preached to by a converted car thief than be lulled to death by the educated gentleman who have reduced Christianity to nothing more than a psychology of comfort." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"We cannot afford to let down our Christian standards just to hold the interest of people who want to go to hell and still belong to a church." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"A truly penitent man who has realized the enormity of his sin and rebellion against God senses a violent revulsion against himself; he does not feel that he can actually dare to ask God to let him off." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me tell you what a moral man really is: he is good enough to deceive himself and bad enough to damn himself." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"A man who truly comes to God in repentance and contrition of heart does not work up a defense on the basis that he has not broken every law and every commandment. If he is truly penitent in seeking pardon and forgiveness, he will be so overcome with the guilt of the commands that he has broken and the sins he is confessing that he will lie down before the great God Almighty, trembling and crying out, 'Oh, God, I am an unclean man and I have sinned against Thee!'" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The rich young ruler was a seeker. The church today would have put his name down on a card and would have counted him among the statistics. But he walked away and turned his back on the offer and the appeal of Jesus Christ... The very fact that he could remember that he had kept any of God's laws disqualified him instantly for eternal life. He trusted in his own moral defense rather than acknowledge his sin and his need." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"We are telling people that the easiest thing in the world is to accept Jesus Christ, and I wonder what has happened to our Christian theology which no longer contains any hint of what it should mean to be completely and utterly abandoned to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is not only the careless who perish. Those who are careful and busy about many good things will perish as well." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is actually true that many people engage in earnest prayers on their road to perdition. In a way they want God, but they don't want him enough. They are interested in eternal life, but they are also interested in other things." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I admit that there are parents who counsel me about the danger of losing the young people from our church life because I am faithful in preaching against this present world and the worldly system in which we live. I can only say that I am concerned and I will stand and cry at the door when they decide to go, but I will not be guilty of deceiving them. I refuse to deceive and damn them by teaching that you can be a Christian and love this present world, for you cannot." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"We have many like the rich young ruler among us still. It is not enough to inquire about the power of the crucified life and the Spirit-filled life. It is not enough to want it -- it must be desired and claimed above everything else. There must be an abandonment to Jesus Christ to realize it. The individual must want the fullness of Christ with such desire that he will turn his back on whatever else matters in his life and walk straight to the arms of Jesus." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is very easy in our day to discern a glaring inconsistency among many well-groomed and overfed evangelical Christians, who profess that they are looking for Christ's second coming and yet vigorously reject any suggestion that Christian faith and witness should be costing them something." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me say that it is very difficult to have any brains in this day in which we live and not get blamed for it. It is hard to have any insight and not be considered a cynic. It is hard to be realistic and not be classed with the pessimists." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The leaders who call for peace and tranquility have not done their homework in the study of the Bible and what it has to say about the future." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I have only heard one prediction made by a world statesman in recent years that was absolutely fool-proof, and that was a remark that the next war will be fought in the future." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"There will be multitudes in panic and distress because of world conditions before Christ returns as Kind of kings and Lord of lords. But there is a special provision for the believing Body of Christ, those who make up His church, for the angels of the Lord encamp around those who fear Him, and delivereth them. We do not yet have the heavenly understanding of all of God's promises, but there have been so many instances where true children of God in danger have been surrounded as by a wall of invisible fire that we dare to rest back on His deliverance." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Men do not have the luxury of taking their chances -- either they are saved or they are not." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let me remind you that Jesus Christ did infinitely more in His death and resurrection than just undoing the damage of the fall. He came to raise us into the image of Jesus Christ, not merely to the image of the first Adam. The first man Adam was a living soul, the second man Adam was a life-giving Spirit. The first man Adam was made of the earth, earthy, but the second man is the Lord from heaven. Redemption in Christ, then, is not to pay back dollar-for-dollar or to straighten man out and restore him into Adamic grace. The purpose and work of redemption in Christ Jesus is to raise man as much above the level of Adam as Christ Himself is above the level of Adam. We are to gaze upon Christ, not Adam, and in so doing are being transformed by the Spirit of God into Christ's image." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"There is a great hue and cry throughout the world today on behalf of tolerance and much of it comes from a rising spirit of godlessness in the nations... the most intolerant book in all the wide world is the Bible, the inspired Word of God, and the most intolerant teacher that ever addressed himself to an audience was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Tolerance easily becomes a matter of cowardice if spiritual principles are involved, if the teachings of God's Word are ignored and forgotten." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"This is the kind of age and hour where the Lord's people should be so alert to the hope and promise of His coming that they should get up every morning just like a child on Christmas morning, eager and believing that it should be today!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Let us read the Bible as the Word of God and never apologize for finding Jesus Christ throughout its pages, for Jesus Christ is what the Bible is all about." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Led by the Spirit of God, the members of the Body of Christ will always be right in their spirit, right in their wisdom, and right in their judgment. They will not be judged nor will they allow themselves to be judged on the basis of what is currently taking place all around them." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"There is no religious group or church organization or denominational communion in the world that God will not desert and abandon in the very hour it ceases to fulfill and carry out His divine will." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Any kind of teaching or exposition, so called, that shuts us out from the privileges and promises of the New Testament is wrong, and the man who tries to shut me out is a false teacher!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Did you know that the people who were with Jesus at the time when He walked among men were not as well off as they were ten days after He left them? Ten days after He departed, He sent the Holy Spirit, and the disciples who understood only in part suddenly knew the plan of God as in a blaze of light." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The scriptural teaching that the work of God through the church can be accomplished only by the energizing of the Holy Spirit is very hard for humans to accept, for it is a concept that frustrates our own carnal desire for honor and praise, for glory and recognition." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Even those with natural capabilities must have a special anointing from the Spirit of God to impart truth. This is undoubtedly true also of the special gifts of wisdom and knowledge." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I do not believe it is proper to magnify one gift above all others, particularly when that gift is one that Paul described as of least value." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Where the wise and gentle of Spirit of God is in control, believers ought to exhibit genuine discernment... Before I join a movement, a school of thought, a theological persuasion, or a church group or denomination, I must make the proper tests... Is there an exercise of sharp spiritual discernment that knows the flesh from the Spirit?... For our fundamentalist Christian circles in general, I fear that there is an alarming lack of spiritual discernment. Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded... There is no other explanation for the wave of rationalism that now marks the life of many congregations. And what about the increasing compromise with all of the deadening forces of worldliness? The true, humble and uncompromising church of Christ is harder and harder to find." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"If any man is determined to preach so that his work and ministry will abide in the day of the judgment fire, then he must preach, teach and exhort with the kind of love and concern that comes only through a true and genuine gift of the Holy Spirit, something beyond his own capabilities!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"When leaders and members of a church do not have the genuine gifts of the Spirit, the true anointing of the Spirit, they are thrown back to depend upon human and natural capabilities. In that case, natural talents must come to the fore... in this realm of religious activity, talent runs the church. The gifts of the Spirit are not recognized and used as God intended... Part of the successful operation of that church depends upon men with business talents and part of it depends upon men with natural gifts as salesmen and politicians... Much of the religious activity we see in the churches is not the eternal working of the Eternal Spirit, but the mortal working of man's mortal mind, and that is raw tragedy." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Mortality and temporality are written all across the church of Christ in the world today because so many persons are trying to do with human genius and power of the flesh what only God can do through the Holy Spirit." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I was nineteen years old, earnestly in prayer, kneeling in the front room of my mother-in-law's home, when I was baptized with a might effusion of the Holy Ghost. I had been eager for God's will and I had been up against almost all of the groups and "isms" with their formulas and theories and teachings... Any tiny work that God has ever done through me and through my ministry for Him dates back to that hour when I was filled with the Spirit. That is why I plead for the spiritual life of the Body of Christ and the eternal ministries of the Eternal Spirit through God's children, His instruments." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Better to have no friends and be an Elijah, alone, than to be like Lot in Sodom, surrounded by friends who all but damned him." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The same blight that rests upon sinful, fallen man, namely, temporality and mortality, rests upon every work that man does." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Ours is the age in which Christ has been explained, humanized, demoted. Many professing Christians no longer expect Him to usher in a new order. They are not at all sure He is able to do so; or if He does, it will be with the help of art, education, science and technology, that is, with the help of man." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Men are lost but not abandoned. That is what the Holy Scriptures teach and that is what the Christian church is commissioned to declare." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"God loves you for His own sake and not for your sake." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"With all my heart I believe in the historicity of the Christian gospel, but that does not mean that the eternal fate of the individual man depends upon historic evidence. The Holy Spirit is here now to convince the world, and however we treat the warnings of the Holy Spirit is exactly how we treat Jesus Christ Himself." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I do not have to be a scholar, a logician, and a lawyer to arrive at belief in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the Holy Spirit has taken the deity of Christ out of the hands of the scholars and put it in the consciences of men. The Spirit of God came to lift it out of the history books and write it on the fleshy tablets of the heart." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"It is a simple matter to get people to come forward when the invitation is given. It is a simple matter to get them on their knees... I continue to oppose that kind of instruction and teaching, the kind that would pick little chickens out of their shells and let them die. I continue to oppose that kind of practice that would take over the work of the Holy Ghost and crowd Him out and retire Him." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Word of the Lord is not easy but it is safe; humble yourself and the Lord will draw near to you." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The Old Testament picture is that of the blood of murdered Abel crying out for justice; the New Testament picture is that of the blood of Jesus Christ the Savior and mediator crying from the throne of God for mercy!" The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I believe that the ground of human conscience is the secret presence of Christ in the world." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"We do a great injury to mankind when we divide these two voices -- exhortation and promise. We have no excuse for insisting that we make a solo out of that which God meant to be a duet... it takes both sides of a half dollar to be worth fifty cents." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The teaching of forgiveness without any turning from sin is a great error and it has filled the churches with deceived members and helped to fill hell with deceived souls." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"The idea that a believer is accountable to God for the deeds done in the body has completely passed out of the theological thinking of the modern fundamentalist church." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Time is a treasured gift which God has given to us but He has not given it to use foolishly." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"I find myself indignant concerning much preaching and teaching which portrays the Christ as a soft and pliant friend of everybody, a painted, plastic figure without any spine and involved in no way with justice... But that Christ that is being so preached is not the Christ of God, nor the Christ of the Bible, nor the Christ who will actually deal with mankind, for that Christ has eyes as a flaming fire, His feet are like burnished brass and from His mouth comes a sharp, two-edged sword. He will be the judge of mankind." The Tozer Pulpit, Vol II

"Those who think poorly of God and well of themselves may chatter idly of "the deity within," but the man who trembles before the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity whose name is Holy, the man who knows the depth of his own sin, will detect a moral incongruity in the teaching that One so holy should dwell in the spirit of one so vile." The Divine Indwelling

"Of the many compelling reasons why we ought to know our Saviour better than we do certainly the first is that He is a person, Jesus Christ. We all agree that he is a person, that he is the Eternal Son, but have we gone on to adore him because he is the source and fountain of everything that you and I are created to enjoy? He is the fountain of all truth, but he is more -- he is truth itself. He is the source and strength of all beauty, but he is more -- he is beauty itself. He is the fountain of all wisdom, but he is more -- he is wisdom itself. In him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden away!" I Talk Back To The Devil

"A man may attend church for a lifetime and be none the better for it." The Tragedy Of Wasted Religious Activity

"In our private prayers and in our public services we are forever asking God to do things that He either has already done or cannot do because of our unbelief." The Tragedy Of Wasted Religious Activity

"To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; ;but He remains personally unknown to the individual." Apprehending God

"For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle." Apprehending God

"The Bible assumes as a self-evident fact that men can know God with at least the same degree of immediacy as they know any other person or thing that comes within the field of their experience." Apprehending God

"God and the spiritual world are real. We can reckon upon them with as much assurance as we reckon upon the familiar world around us." Apprehending God

"Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only." True Faith Brings Commitment

"To many Christians Christ is little more than an idea, or at best an ideal. He is not a fact. Millions of professed believers talk as if He were real and act as if He were not." True Faith Brings Commitment

"We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him." True Faith Brings Commitment

"Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse." True Faith Brings Commitment

"What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day... It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us." True Faith Brings Commitment

"Another kind of religious leader must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has seen visions of God and has heard a voice from the Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many), he will stand in flat contradiction to everything our smirking, smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and protest in the name of God and will earn the hatred and opposition of a large segment of Christendom. Such a man is likely to be lean, rugged, blunt-spoken and a little bit angry with the world. He will love Christ and the souls of men to the point of willingness to die for the glory of the One and the salvation of the other. But he will fear nothing that breathes with mortal breath." The Size of the Soul

"Without doubt there are activities that take precedence over works of charity. One is the work of witnessing to the grace and power of God as expressed through Jesus Christ." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The identical message preached to the heathen by men of differing degrees of godliness will produce different kinds of converts and result in a quality of Christianity varying according to the purity and power of those who preach it. Christianity will always reproduce itself after its kind. A worldly-minded, unspiritual church, when she crosses the ocean to give her witness to peoples of other tongues and other cultures, is sure to bring forth on other shores a Christianity much like her own." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The popular notion that the first obligation of the church is to spread the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth is false. Her first obligation is to be spiritually worthy to spread it... To spread an effete, degenerate brand of Christianity to pagan lands is not to fulfill the commandment of Christ or to discharge our obligation to the heathen." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Evangelical Christianity, at least in the United States, is now tragically below the New Testament standard. Worldliness is an accepted part of our way of life." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Everyone admires Jesus, but almost no one takes Him seriously... We can only conclude that Jesus is universally popular today because He is universally misunderstood... the teachings of Christ are wholly contrary to the beliefs of the modern world. The spiritual philosophy underlying the kingdom of God is radically opposed to that of civilized society. In short, the Christ of the New Testament and the world of mankind are so sharply opposed to each other as to amount to downright hostility. To achieve a compromise is impossible." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The contradiction between Christ and unregenerate society is sharp and irreconcilable, but the contrast between society and its own mistaken conception of Him is scarcely noticeable. So the world can cherish its image of Christ and ignore His commandments without a qualm of conscience." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"When a Christian ignores the commandment of Christ, he is guilty of sin doubly compounded. He violates holy vows, is guilty of rebellion against God and commits the grotesque sin of calling Jesus Lord with his words and denying His Lordship with his deeds." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The teachings of Jesus were never intended for the nations of the world. Our Lord sent His followers into all the world to make and baptize disciples... To expect of once-born nations conduct possible only to the regenerated, purified, Spirit-led followers of Christ is to confuse the truth of Christianity and hope for the impossible." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"Inspired prophets will prove a fine antidote to the uninspired scientists." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The Bible is an organic unity, one with itself throughout, and must be received in toto or in toto rejected." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The man who will not believe in hell must surrender his right to believe in heaven." The Warfare Of The Spirit

"The Holy Spirit did not come upon the disciples to unite them. The Holy Spirit came upon the disciples because they were already united." Sermon, God's Great Promise To The Church