Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The more holy, the more humble.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Just when you are most desirous of being deemed great, innumerable little things are sure to happen which not only reduce you to your true dimensions but bring you below them