Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I have a very strong connection with God, very strong sense of my faith.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.