Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.

Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.

I have never really tried to forge my own identity. As followers of Jesus Christ, we ought to forge our identity in Him.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.