“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.”

—  Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man: The Dwelling Place of God (1992)

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American missionary 1897–1963

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