Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Secularism produces a bored soul

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.