Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

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.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.

True love is the parent of humility.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

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

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

Christian life means sacrifice.