Aiden Wilson Tozer
Overview
 
Aiden Wilson Tozer was an American Christian
Christian
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 pastor
Pastor
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, preacher
Preacher
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, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees.
Hailing from a tiny farming community in western La Jose, Pennsylvania
Newburg, Pennsylvania
Newburg is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:*Newburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania*Newburg, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania*Newburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania*Newburg, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania...

, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...

. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved...
Quotations

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.

We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

 
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