The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self.
Interpretation
True fulfillment comes from selflessness and devotion to a higher purpose.
This quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer emphasizes the idea that experiencing the divine or a greater sense of purpose often requires individuals to sacrifice their own desires and ego. It suggests that self-centered pursuits may hinder one's spiritual journey, and that true glory—whether related to God or a meaningful life—is found through selflessness and serving something greater than oneself.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of self-sacrifice in faith.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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