Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.