When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

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.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

So, it becomes the devil’s business to keep the Christian’s spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage…we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

What’s closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you’ll talk about Him.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)

No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

A.W. Tozer (Pastor, Preacher)