Aiden Wilson Tozer Church Quotations

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

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 type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us....

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference.

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak... Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending on her concept of God.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

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.

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.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

A scared world needs a fearless church.