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As long as Christ sits on the mediatorial throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation. Neither -- A.w. Tozer
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When God looks at a sinner who still loves his sin and rejects the mystery of the atonement, justice condemns him to die. When God looks at a sinner who has accepted the blood of the everlasting covenant, justice -- A.w. Tozer
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When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. -- A.w. Tozer
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The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: Thy right hand has upheld me. -- A.w. Tozer
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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. -- A.w. Tozer
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The soul has eyes with which to see and ears with which to hear. Feeble they may be from long disuse, but by the life-giving touch of Christ alive now and capable of sharpest sight and most sensitive hearing. -- A.w. Tozer
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A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality. -- A.w. Tozer
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Allowing yourself to be put in such a position that God is exalted is the goal of living the crucified life. When you allow God to be exalted in your difficulties, you will be in the perfect position to smell the sweet fragrance of His presence. -- A.w. Tozer
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[Sadly] the first thing we tell our young converts, the babes in Christ, is, 'Here is a handful of tracts- now get out and get busy! -- A.w. Tozer
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Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him. -- A.w. Tozer
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But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stilled. If they are forbidden from their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy -- A.w. Tozer
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O God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forgive me for becoming so enthralled with my surroundings that I forget to look up and gaze into Thy face. The radiance of Thy face is all I really need. Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one. -- A.w. Tozer
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Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode. -- A.w. Tozer
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Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience. -- A.w. Tozer
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The scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells what he has seen. -- A.w. Tozer
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The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith. -- A.w. Tozer
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Surely the LORD is in this place, and I knew it not. Jacob had never been for one small division of a moment outside the circle of that all-pervading presence. But he knew it not. -- A.w. Tozer
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Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning. hosea 6:3 -- A.w. Tozer
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The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all. -- A.w. Tozer
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Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you. -- A.w. Tozer
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To say that God is omniscient is to say that He possesses perfect knowledge and therefore has no need to learn. But it is more: it is to say that God has never learned and cannot learn. -- A.w. Tozer
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Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him (pp. 94-95). -- A.w. Tozer
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Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him. -- A.w. Tozer
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There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this. -- A.w. Tozer
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Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. -- A.w. Tozer
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God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is. -- A.w. Tozer
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That God is the sum of all created things. Nature and God are one, so that whoever touches a leaf or a stone touches God. That is of course to degrade the glory of the incorruptible Deity and, in an effort to make all things divine, banish all divinity from the world entirely. -- A.w. Tozer
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We have too many dry preachers in the world now. We have so many dry preachers and so many men who never shed a tear. If you can keep the tears of God on you and can keep your heart tender, keep it! You have a treasure you should never give up. -- A.w. Tozer
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To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love. -- A.w. Tozer
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The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ. -- A.w. Tozer
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Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let him come to God in full determination to be heard. Let him insist that God accept his all, that He take things out of his heart and Himself reign there in power. -- A.w. Tozer
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To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence. -- A.w. Tozer
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The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other. -- A.w. Tozer
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With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures. -- A.w. Tozer
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In the meantime he will have attained a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings. -- A.w. Tozer
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One important point many fail to understand is that the Bible was never meant to replace God; rather, it was meant to lead us into the heart of God. Too many Christians stop with the text and never go on to experience the presence of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies. -- A.w. Tozer
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If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing. -- A.w. Tozer
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He is indivisible from the Father and the Son, so that if you were to be suddenly transferred to heaven itself you wouldn't be any closer to God than you are now, for God is already here. -- A.w. Tozer
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If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you. Do not come with the notion that it is a thing which you may push around at your convenience. It is more than a thing, it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God. -- A.w. Tozer
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If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face. -- A.w. Tozer
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That is how John explains it, and with him agrees the apostle Paul: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him; -- A.w. Tozer
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Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. -- A.w. Tozer
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God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust -- A.w. Tozer
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Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us ... -- A.w. Tozer
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It is one thing to read about being filled with the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to experience the mighty infilling of the Holy Spirit that radically changes our life to a life of adoring wonder and amazement at the things of God. Reading and experiencing are two quite different things. -- A.w. Tozer
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The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not to be afraid of Him. To fear and not be afraid - that is the paradox of faith. -- A.w. Tozer
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Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His presence and live our whole life there. -- A.w. Tozer
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Writers are b*tc*ing about 140 characters. If you can't make a point in two sentences, how good is that book of yours really going to be?
Taken from Twitter Titters Volume 1 edited by John Rice -- A.w. Tozer
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Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name; Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love's reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, And gaze and gaze on Thee! -- A.w. Tozer
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True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. -- A.w. Tozer
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Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness. -- A.w. Tozer
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THE MAN WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONVINCED that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place. -- A.w. Tozer
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In the living breathing cosmos there is a mysterious Something, too wonderful, too awful for any mind to understand. The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, God. -- A.w. Tozer
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A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief. -- A.w. Tozer
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Deity indwelling men! That, I say is Christianity! -- A.w. Tozer
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It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. -- A.w. Tozer
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Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. -- A.w. Tozer
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My unassisted heart is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed: Of good and pious works Thou art the seed, That quickens only where Thou sayest it may: Unless Thou show to us Thine own true way No man can find it: Father! Thou must lead. These words will repay -- A.w. Tozer
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What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay. -- A.w. Tozer
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Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3). -- A.w. Tozer
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can result in a resurrection of life for many souls and a recapture of that radiant wonder which should accompany faith in Christ, that wonder which has all but fled the Church of God in our day. -- A.w. Tozer
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The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known. -- A.w. Tozer
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We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy. -- A.w. Tozer
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The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace. -- A.w. Tozer
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The heavens declare Thy glory, Lord, In every star Thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold Thy Word, We read Thy name in fairer lines. ISAAC WATTS -- A.w. Tozer
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We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message. -- A.w. Tozer
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Every man must choose his world. -- A.w. Tozer
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Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day. -- A.w. Tozer
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The purpose of God is not to save us from hell; the purpose of God is to save us to make us like Christ and to make us like God. God will never be done with us until the day we see His face, when His name will be on our foreheads; and we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is. -- A.w. Tozer
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Spinoza wrote of the intellectual love of God, and he had a measure of truth there; but the highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man the fire must glow or his love is not the true love of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man, the fire must glow, or his love is not the true love of God. The great ones of the kingdom have been those who loved God more than others did. -- A.w. Tozer
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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour
that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst
the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits. -- A.w. Tozer
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I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months -- A.w. Tozer
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A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again. -- A.w. Tozer
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We do God more honor by believing what He has said about Himself and having the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace than by hiding in self-conscious humility among the trees of the garden. -- A.w. Tozer
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One of the most stinging criticisms made against Christians is that their minds are narrow and their hearts small. This may not be wholly true, but that such a charge can be made at all is sufficient cause for serious heart searching and prayer. -- A.w. Tozer
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Pulled out of the mud of your own ego, so that you have stopped thinking that you are somebody, at last you are delivered from yourself and are seeking God for Himself alone. -- A.w. Tozer
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We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts. The opposite is true. We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One. -- A.w. Tozer
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Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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Is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts. -- A.w. Tozer
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Return ye children of men was the word spoken at the Fall by which God decreed the death of every man, and no added word has He needed to speak. The sad procession of mankind across the face of the earth from birth to the grave is proof that His original Word was enough. -- A.w. Tozer
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The more my trust rests in God, the less I trust myself. If we truly desire to live the crucified life, we must get rid of self-trust and trust only in God. -- A.w. Tozer
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So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make. -- A.w. Tozer
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We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end. -- A.w. Tozer
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To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us. -- A.w. Tozer
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My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. - Psa. 63:8 -- A.w. Tozer
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Anyone who might feel reluctant to surrender his will to the will of another should remember Jesus' words, "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. -- A.w. Tozer
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Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read. -- A.w. Tozer
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The truth is that the Man who walked among us was a demonstration, not of unveiled deity, but of perfect humanity. -- A.w. Tozer
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Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character. -- A.w. Tozer
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I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. -- A.w. Tozer
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The cross is the suffering the Christian endures as a consequence of his following Christ in perfect obedience. Christ chose the cross by choosing the path that led to it; and it is so with His followers. In the way of obedience stands the cross, and we take the cross when we enter that way. -- A.w. Tozer
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Forgiveness, cleansing, regeneration, the Holy Spirit, all answers to prayer, are given to faith and received by faith. There is no other way. This is common evangelical doctrine and is accepted wherever the cross of Christ is understood. -- A.w. Tozer
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God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God -- A.w. Tozer
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Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark, no matter how scriptural it may appear to be -- A.w. Tozer
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To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. -- A.w. Tozer
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God does not choose us for who we are, or how qualified we are, but rather for who He is and what He is permitted to do through our lives. -- A.w. Tozer
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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. -- A.w. Tozer
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When I come before Him, however, I need to put away everything, quiet my heart in silence, and allow the Holy Spirit to create the focus at that moment and let His presence fill me with wonder and awe. Through -- A.w. Tozer
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What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. -- A.w. Tozer
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I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion ... I want all that God has or I don't want any. -- A.w. Tozer
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It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well. -- A.w. Tozer
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We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes. -- A.w. Tozer
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When He returns is not as important as the fact that we are ready for Him when He does return. -- A.w. Tozer
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. -- A.w. Tozer
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Body and mind and life and heart, taking the whole personality over, gently, but directly and bluntly, and making it His, so that we may become a habitation of God through the Spirit. -- A.w. Tozer
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Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. -- A.w. Tozer
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speak to the condition" of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation. -- A.w. Tozer
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Though free from all sense of possessing, they yet possess all things. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -- A.w. Tozer
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He waits to show Himself in ravishing fulness to the humble of soul and the pure in heart. -- A.w. Tozer
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The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained. -- A.w. Tozer
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We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position. -- A.w. Tozer
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Christ, and after that everything is "automatic." This is because of our failure to lay a scriptural emphasis in our evangelical preaching. In our eagerness to make converts, we allow our believers to absorb the idea that they can deal with their -- A.w. Tozer
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God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. -- A.w. Tozer
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The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, -- A.w. Tozer
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The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. -- A.w. Tozer
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For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven. -- A.w. Tozer
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God wills that we should push on into His Presence and live our whole life there. This is to be known to us in conscious experience. It is more than a doctrine to be held, it is a life to be enjoyed every moment of every day. -- A.w. Tozer
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Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech. -- A.w. Tozer
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that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him. For such a man I have no message. -- A.w. Tozer
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The hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all. -- A.w. Tozer
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The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. -- A.w. Tozer
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What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends -- A.w. Tozer
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Those who are twice-born crystallize around the Person of Christ and cluster together in companies, while the once-born are held together only by the ties of nature, aided by the ties of race or by common political and social interests. -- A.w. Tozer
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And so, God, in no hurry whatsoever, painstakingly chips away, removing everything that is not part of the image of Christ. He takes the initiative to interrupt our lives for the higher cost of developing us into spiritually mature believers. -- A.w. Tozer
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How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. -- A.w. Tozer
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All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:16, 17) . -- A.w. Tozer
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The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs-in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker. -- A.w. Tozer
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table. The -- A.w. Tozer
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For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema. -- A.w. Tozer
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Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next millennium. -- A.w. Tozer
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Thus we dare not conclude that because we learn about the Spirit we for that reason actually know Him. Knowing Him comes only by a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit himself. -- A.w. Tozer
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By the exercise of his will he has set his course, and on that course he will stay as if guided by an automatic pilot. If blown off course for a moment by some adverse wind he will surely return again as by a secret bent of the soul. -- A.w. Tozer
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A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. -- A.w. Tozer
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Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet real and it may be those who can light their candle at its flame. -- A.w. Tozer
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Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. -- A.w. Tozer
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I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions. -- A.w. Tozer
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God's being is unitary; it is not composed of a number of parts working harmoniously, but simply one. There is nothing in His justice which forbids the exercise of His mercy. -- A.w. Tozer
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The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things. -- A.w. Tozer
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When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock. -- A.w. Tozer
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To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them -- A.w. Tozer
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You know, it's awfully hard to get a Christian scared. It's hard to get him panicked if he really believes in God. If he's just a church member, you can get him panicked. But if he really believes in God it's very difficult to do it. -- A.w. Tozer
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In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. -- A.w. Tozer
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If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through. -- A.w. Tozer
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The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith must precede all effort to understand. Reflection upon revealed truth naturally follows the advent of faith, but faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind. -- A.w. Tozer
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When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety. -- A.w. Tozer
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It. It is not intellectual knowledge about God that quenches man's ancient heart-thirst, but the very Person and Presence of God Himself. These come to us through Christian doctrine, but they are more than doctrine. Christian truth is designed to lead us to God, not to serve as a substitute for God. -- A.w. Tozer
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The whole course of the life is upset by failure to put God where He belongs. We exalt ourselves instead of God and the curse follows. -- A.w. Tozer
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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. - Heb. 10:19 -- A.w. Tozer
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We wonder why we don't have faith; the answer is, faith is confidence in the character of God and if we don't know what kind of God God is, we can't have faith. -- A.w. Tozer
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Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is. -- A.w. Tozer
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For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like. -- A.w. Tozer
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Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there. -- A.w. Tozer
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That I may know Him, was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything. -- A.w. Tozer
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Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. -- A.w. Tozer
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The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind. -- A.w. Tozer
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If we understand that everything happening to us is to make us more Christlike, it will solve a great deal of anxiety in our lives. -- A.w. Tozer
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Christ about Whom all -- A.w. Tozer
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All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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The great unseen reality is God -- A.w. Tozer
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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one -- A.w. Tozer
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Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. -- A.w. Tozer
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What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love. -- A.w. Tozer
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[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages. -- A.w. Tozer
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When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does. -- A.w. Tozer
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We have been snared in the coils of spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. -- A.w. Tozer
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I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. -- A.w. Tozer
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The purified heart is obnoxious to the devil and to all the forces of the lost world. They will not rest until they have won back what they have lost. -- A.w. Tozer
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We have all had teachers who sought to educate us by feeding alien ideas into our minds, ideas for which we felt no spiritual or intellectual kinship. These we dutifully tried to integrate into our total spiritual philosophy but always without success. -- A.w. Tozer
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We should revel in the joy of believing that God is the sum of all patience and the true essence of kindly good will! -- A.w. Tozer
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Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully. -- A.w. Tozer
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Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe. -- A.w. Tozer
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One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. -- A.w. Tozer
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If we truly want to follow God, we must seek to be otherworldly. -- A.w. Tozer
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Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk. -- A.w. Tozer
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Were men everywhere to ignore the things that matter little or not at all and give serious attention to the few really important things, most of the walls that divide men would be thrown down at once and a world of endless sufferings ended. -- A.w. Tozer
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The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind for us, put into our familiar human words. -- A.w. Tozer
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Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. -- A.w. Tozer
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So let men turn their telescopes on the heavens and their microscopes on the molecules. Let them probe and search and tabulate and name and find and discover. I can dare to say to them, "I know the One who made all this. I'm personally acquainted with the One who made it. -- A.w. Tozer
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The world wants the church to add a dainty spiritual touch to its carnal schemes, and to be there to help it to its feet and put it to bed when it comes home drunk with fleshly pleasures. -- A.w. Tozer
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The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being sense its kinship to God and leaps us in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ and they have not been saved. -- A.w. Tozer
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He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment. -- A.w. Tozer
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We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. -- A.w. Tozer
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We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait. -- A.w. Tozer
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If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you. -- A.w. Tozer
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Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not. -- A.w. Tozer
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Water may change from liquid to vapor and still be fundamentally the same. So powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days. -- A.w. Tozer
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Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne. -- A.w. Tozer
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Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society; it is descending to society's own level, and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smilingly accepting its surrender. -- A.w. Tozer
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To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual. -- A.w. Tozer
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The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activity activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. -- A.w. Tozer
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If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God. -- A.w. Tozer
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God does his deepest work in our darkest hours -- A.w. Tozer
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It is God which worketh in you. He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone. -- A.w. Tozer
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O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him. -- A.w. Tozer
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Any man who by repentance and a sincere return to God will break himself out of the mold in which he has been held, and will go to the Bible itself for his spiritual standards, will be delighted with what he finds there. -- A.w. Tozer
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To know God is not a matter of education, but of illumination. The stairwell to illumination is utter fascination in the presence of God. Push out all other activities and come in silent wonder and admiration in the presence of God. Then God will open up His heart and illuminate Himself to you. -- A.w. Tozer
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Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God. -- A.w. Tozer
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To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free. Let -- A.w. Tozer
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It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let us believe that God is in all our simplest deeds and learn to find Him there. -- A.w. Tozer
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We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind. -- A.w. Tozer
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God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. -- A.w. Tozer
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It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be. -- A.w. Tozer
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If you trace effect back to cause and that cause back to another cause and so on, back through the long dim corridors of the past until you come to the primordial atom out of which all things were made, you will find the One who made them - you'll find God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes. -- A.w. Tozer
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There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action. -- A.w. Tozer
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The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence. -- A.w. Tozer
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The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion. -- A.w. Tozer
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The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. -- A.w. Tozer
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When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality. -- A.w. Tozer
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The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest. -- A.w. Tozer
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We would dwell with Thee in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter Thy heaven to dwell with Thee there. -- A.w. Tozer
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Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ. -- A.w. Tozer
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It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right. -- A.w. Tozer
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Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. -- A.w. Tozer
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Just now we happen to be living in a secular age. Our thought habits are those of the scientist, not those of the worshipper. We are more likely to explain than to adore. "It thundered," we exclaim, and go our earthly way. -- A.w. Tozer
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Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal. -- A.w. Tozer
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Those who have truly seen Christ in His glory have eyes for nothing else. -- A.w. Tozer
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Pardon without penitence is a delusion which simple honesty requires that we expose for what it is. -- A.w. Tozer
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The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the "and" lies our great woe. If we omit the "and" we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing. -- A.w. Tozer
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As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. -- A.w. Tozer
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He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. -- A.w. Tozer
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It will be a great moment for some of us when we begin to believe that God's promise of self-revelation is literally true: that He promised much, but promised no more than He intends to fulfill. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. -- A.w. Tozer
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What I believe about God is the most important thing about me. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let us start reading our Bibles with the thought that God means exactly what He says. -- A.w. Tozer
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But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children. -- A.w. Tozer
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Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. -- A.w. Tozer
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The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING. -- A.w. Tozer
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To seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous. -- A.w. Tozer
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Spiritual sophistication lacks freshness and warmth; God is far away, and there is little communion and little joy in the Lord. To have a cold heart with little pity, little fire, little love and little worship is spiritual lethargy. -- A.w. Tozer
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So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is in Himself without regard to any other. To believe in Him adds nothing to His perfections; to doubt Him takes nothing away. Almighty God, just because He is almighty, needs no support. -- A.w. Tozer
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Lord, may I also talk "too much" about You. May I keep You first in everything I do, think or say today. Enable me by Your Spirit, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. -- A.w. Tozer
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We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration. -- A.w. Tozer
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Are eager for spiritual -- A.w. Tozer
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Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective, the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things. This is the condition of vast numbers of Christians today. -- A.w. Tozer
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Unbelief has put self where God should be, and is perilously close to the sin of Lucifer who said, "I will set my throne above the throne of God." Faith looks out instead of in and the whole life falls into line. -- A.w. Tozer
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Many are guilty of merely 'nibbling' at the truth of the Christian Gospel. -- A.w. Tozer
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The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man. -- A.w. Tozer
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Nothing on the outside compares to Thy presence on my inside. -- A.w. Tozer
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What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour. -- A.w. Tozer
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True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith. -- A.w. Tozer
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Milton's terrible sentence applies to our day as accurately as it did to his: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let the inquiring Christian trample under foot every slippery trick of his deceitful heart and insist upon frank and open relations with the Lord. -- A.w. Tozer
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Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist. -- A.w. Tozer
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The great unseen Reality is God. He -- A.w. Tozer
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Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men. -- A.w. Tozer
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Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live. -- A.w. Tozer
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. -- A.w. Tozer
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Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us. -- A.w. Tozer
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But first of all we must will, for the will is master of the heart. -- A.w. Tozer
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Let us be alert to the season in which we are living. It is the season of the Blessed Hope, calling for us to cut our ties with the world and build ourselves on this One who will soon appear. He is our hope - a Blessed Hope enabling us to rise above our times and fix our gaze upon Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the poor in spirit. -- A.w. Tozer
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We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is. -- A.w. Tozer
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Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of "comfortability." They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them. -- A.w. Tozer
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Then he should remember that this is holy business. No careless or casual dealings will suffice. -- A.w. Tozer
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The most godly Christian is the one who knows himself best, and no one who knows himself will believe that he deserves anything better than hell. -- A.w. Tozer
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God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today. -- A.w. Tozer
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Be Thou exalted above my comforts. Though it mean the loss of bodily comforts and the carrying of heavy crosses I shall keep my vow made this day before Thee. Be Thou exalted over my reputation. -- A.w. Tozer
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If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on. -- A.w. Tozer
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We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts -- A.w. Tozer
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Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us. -- A.w. Tozer
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God is forever seeking to speak Himself out to His creation. -- A.w. Tozer
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Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. -- A.w. Tozer
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God being Who and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. -- A.w. Tozer
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Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If -- A.w. Tozer
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Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun. -- A.w. Tozer
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Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick, for it is trying to run a heavenly institution after an earthly manner. -- A.w. Tozer
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Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice. -- A.w. Tozer
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The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place. -- A.w. Tozer
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As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings. I certainly do not think we should follow our feelings alone, but I believe that if there is no feeling in our hearts, then we are dead. -- A.w. Tozer
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True worship that is pleasing to God creates within the human heart a spirit of expectation and insatiable longing. -- A.w. Tozer
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In our desire after God let us keep always in mind that God also hath desire, and His desire is toward the sons of men, and more particularly toward those sons of men who will make the once-for-all decision to exalt Him over all. -- A.w. Tozer
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Acquaint thyself with God. -- A.w. Tozer
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I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven. -- A.w. Tozer
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Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there? -- A.w. Tozer
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Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone. -- A.w. Tozer
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They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering. -- A.w. Tozer
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We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. -- A.w. Tozer
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In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all. -- A.w. Tozer
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Raise up prophets and seers in Thy Church who shall magnify Thy glory and through Thine almighty Spirit restore to Thy people the knowledge of the holy. Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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God's purpose in creating Adam and Eve is summed up in what they could do for God that nothing else in the whole creation could do. They had an exclusive on God shared by no other of God's creation. -- A.w. Tozer
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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. -- A.w. Tozer
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Man must choose his world -- A.w. Tozer
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To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend. -- A.w. Tozer
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He has been taught in his head, but his heart has not been satisfied, and he goes away still hungry. -- A.w. Tozer
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Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. We want to get Him where we can use Him, or at least know where He is when we need Him. We want a God we can in some measure control. -- A.w. Tozer
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God breathed on clay and it became a man; He breathes on men and they become clay. -- A.w. Tozer
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The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. -- A.w. Tozer
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Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. -- A.w. Tozer
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As gold is an element in itself and can never change nor compromise but is gold wherever it is found, so God is God, always, only, fully God, and can never be other than He is. -- A.w. Tozer
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Dear Lord Jesus, I never tire of acknowledging Thy greatness in my life. Today may I lift Thee up so that all may see the greatness of Thee. Amen. -- A.w. Tozer
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Who care. They are those who, while they love the altar and delight in the sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile -- A.w. Tozer
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I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one. -- A.w. Tozer
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If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit had been withdrawn from the New Testament church, 95 percent of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference. -- A.w. Tozer
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There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic. -- A.w. Tozer
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His supreme purpose in making man was to have somebody capable to properly and sufficiently worship Him and satisfy His own heart. -- A.w. Tozer
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As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. -- A.w. Tozer
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Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God. -- A.w. Tozer
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Whoever defends himself will have himself for defense, and he will have no other. But let him come defenseless before the Lord and he will have for his defender no less than God Himself. -- A.w. Tozer
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Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. -- A.w. Tozer
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When a man rises and says, "I believe the Bible" and then ignores the teachings of the Bible on his own pet subjects, he is rejecting the Word more insidiously than outright disbelief. -- A.w. Tozer
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It is a truth known to everyone, a kind of common property of all religious persons, but for the very reason that it is so common it now has but little meaning for any of us. -- A.w. Tozer
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Among the sins to which the human heart is prone, hardly any other is more hateful to God than idolatry, for idolatry is at bottom a libel on His character. The -- A.w. Tozer
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As all man's work is done by his mind, so the work of the Church is done by the Spirit, and by Him alone. -- A.w. Tozer
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Similarly, the presence of God is the central fact of Christianity. -- A.w. Tozer
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As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call. -- A.w. Tozer
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Every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. -- A.w. Tozer
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Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education. -- A.w. Tozer
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You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is -- A.w. Tozer
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It would be like God to make the most vital thing easy and place it within the range of possibility for the weakest and poorest of us. -- A.w. Tozer
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When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. -- A.w. Tozer
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Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man. -- A.w. Tozer
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What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. -- A.w. Tozer
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The man who would truly know God must give time to Him. -- A.w. Tozer
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Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. -- A.w. Tozer
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To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground. -- A.w. Tozer
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If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible. -- A.w. Tozer