01c. 1930 ADIt is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
02c. 1930 ADWhat 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1930 ADAs 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1930 ADThe Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
07c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1930 ADComplacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
09c. 1930 ADBut 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 destroyA.W. Tozer / quote ↗
10c. 1930 ADThe Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has been repudiated. Holy feeling had an important place in the life of our Lord. “For the joy that was set before Him” He endured the cross and despised its shame. He pictured Himself crying, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
11c. 1930 ADA 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1930 ADThere is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
13c. 1930 ADMade 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1930 ADDid 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1930 ADWhen 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1930 ADBecause God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that boundless confidence in His character that used to be prominent among Christians. Confidence is necessary to respect. You cannot respect a man in whom you have no confidence. Extend that respect upward to God and if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him. You cannot have confidence in Him, because where there is no respect there can be no worship.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
17c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1930 ADAs 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1930 ADTo 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1930 ADI 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 monthsA.W. Tozer / quote ↗
21c. 1930 ADThe filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world.Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking at another world. They really saw another world.Nowadays, we perceive that even a large part of evangelical Christianity is trying to convert this world to the church. We are bringing the world in head over heels--unregenerated, uncleansed, unshriven, unbaptized, unsanctified. we are bringing the world right into the church. If we can get some big shot to say something nice about the church, we rush into print and tell about this fellow and what nice things he said. I don't care at all about big shots because I serve a living Saviour, and Jesus Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings. I believe every man ought to know this ability to see another world.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
22c. 1930 ADWorship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
23c. 1930 ADIf 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1930 ADI 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 / quote ↗
