Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.