Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

I literally grew up in the church.

Like, you can have church at your house. I feel like as long as you're giving Him praise, you can do it wherever. You don't have to be inside of a church to give praise to Him.

I was born in church. I was raised in church.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.

In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains.

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.