Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

An empty man is full of himself.

We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.