Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

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

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

You always have some weaknesses, if you're entirely happy it means you're under-driving it.

I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because too much encourages us to spend too much time with our lower nature, and we have a higher nature as well.

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of themselves, as far as my experience and observation reach, have from that time not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performances, but have gone backward. They may be compared to men who have lived upon their principal, till they are reduced to beggary, and left without resources.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.