Alone

Relevant excerpts from "The Saint Must Walk Alone" by AW Tozer:

"Most of the world's greatest souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness."

"Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross. 'They all forsook Him, and fled.'"

"The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world."

"His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his inner circle of friends there are so few who share his experiences, he is forced to walk alone."

"The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way."