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

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Bored, Church, Today

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!

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Hurt, Medicine, Church
"I Talk Back to the Devil: Essays in Spiritual Perfection". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1972.

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, Sanctuary

A scared world needs a fearless church.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fearless, Church, Needs

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
God, Christian, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Leader, Church, Entertainment

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Men, Hard Life, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, Conviction, Repentance

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fall, Church, Disease

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fun, Names, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, Local Church, Conception

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Art, Worship Music, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Christian, Lying, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus, Church, Beginning Middle And End
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.55, Fig

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Promise, Church, Tradition

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Jesus, Church, Want

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Taken, Average, Church

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'

Aiden Wilson Tozer
People, Wish, Church

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, Groups, Done

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Hands, Church, Months

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Men, Storm, Church

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Ideas, Church, Revealing
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.4, Fig

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Light, Church, Spirit

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, Watches, Praying

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Church, World, Want

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