Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.

All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.

I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a new perspective and a direction in life. I decided to dedicate myself to others and till date I am continuing to follow that decision.

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.

Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.