A. W. Tozer

A. W. Tozer “It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not
millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.”

Shortly before A.W. Tozer's "eighteenth birthday he was converted by the preaching of an elderly man on a busy street corner, who inspired him to seek his attic and wrestle with God....Aiden, the first of his family to be converted, began street preaching himself and also holding neighborhood prayer meetings. But he would also frequently withdraw from others for bible study and prayer, finding the basement a quiet space. Often he would lie prostrate on the floor, using a piece of paper to keep his face clean." --The Mystic Sprituality of A.W. Toxer, A Twentieth-Century Protestant, by E. Lynn Harris (pg 19)

"Some of my friends good-humoredly - and some a little bit severely - have called me a 'mystic.' Well I'd like to say this about any mysticism I may suppose to have. If an archangel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me, and giving me instruction, I'd ask him for the text. I'd say, 'Where's it say that in the Bible? I want to know.' And I would insist that it was according to the scriptures, because I do not believe in any extra-scriptural teachings, nor any anti-scriptural teachings, or any sub-scriptural teachings. I think we ought to put the emphasis where God puts it, and continue to put it there, and to expound the scriptures, and stay by the scriptures. I wouldn't - no matter if I saw a light above the light of the sun, I'd keep my mouth shut about it 'til I'd checked with Daniel and Revelation and the rest of the scriptures to see if it had any basis in truth. And if it didn't, I'd think I'd just eaten something I shouldn't, and I wouldn't say anything about it. Because I don't believe in anything that is unscriptural or that is anti-scripture."
- What Difference Does the Holy Spirit Make?, A. W. Tozer


In the moral conflict
now raging around us,
whoever is on God's side
is on the winning side
and cannot lose;
whoever is on the other side
is on the losing side and cannot win.
Here there is no chane, no gamble.
There is freedom to choose
which side we shall be on,
but no freedom
to negotiate the results
of the choice once it is made.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
1897-1963
20th Century Preacher