Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.