Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.

Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man 's soul.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.