Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

Remember who you are and what God expects you to become.

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

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

Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.