Tozer Quotes

“Regarding his preaching, he said, “I like to compare the preacher to an artist. An artist works in water, oil, sand, stone, gold, glass. On the other hand, the preacher works in the stuff called mankind. The artist has an idea of abstract beauty and he seeks to reproduce it in visible, concrete things. The preacher has Christ and tries to make Him visible in human lives. The artist has genius while the preacher has the Holy Spirit. The artist draws his inspiration from other artists while the preacher draws his inspiration in prayer alone with God.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit:

“The only safe place for a sheep is by the side of his shepherd, because the devil does not fear sheep; he just fears the Shepherd, that is all.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit:

“the Holy Spirit is an illuminator. He is light to the inner heart. And He will show you more of God in a moment than you can ever learn in a lifetime without Him. Then, when He does come, all that you have learned and all that you do learn will have its proper place in your total personality and total creed and total thinking, so you will not loose anything that you have learned. And He will not throw out what you have learned if it is truth, but He will set it on fire. He will add fire to the altar.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit:

“You can discover,” Tozer once instructed, “more of the Holy Spirit in five minutes on your knees in adoring worship than five years at a seminary.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit:

“After the Bible the next most valuable book for the Christian is a good hymnal. Let any young Christian spend a year prayerfully meditating on the hymns of [Isaac] Watts and [Charles] Wesley alone, and he will become a fine theologian. Then let him read a balanced diet of the Puritans and the Christian mystics. The results will be more wonderful than he could have dreamed.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer: Mystery of the Holy Spirit: