01c. 1930 ADWhat God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
02c. 1930 ADEverything 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1930 ADIf man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
04c. 1930 ADWhat 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 / quote ↗
05c. 1930 ADWhat 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1930 ADThe only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
07c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1930 ADMany 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1930 ADReligious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually,” wrote Tozer. “They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
11c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1930 ADThe love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
13c. 1930 ADWe need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughtsA.W. Tozer / quote ↗
14c. 1930 ADGod 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 GodA.W. Tozer / quote ↗
15c. 1930 ADAlways, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each oneA.W. Tozer / quote ↗
16c. 1930 ADWe now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
17c. 1930 ADMillions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choice he makes day after day throughout his life.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
18c. 1930 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1930 ADWhenever 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 / quote ↗
20c. 1930 ADIn a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplore the lack of stability in all earthly things, in a fallen world such as this the very ability to change is a golden treasure, a gift from God of such fabulous worth as to call for constant thanksgiving. For human beings the whole possibility of redemption lies in their ability to change. To move across from one sort of person to another is the essence of repentance; the liar becomes truthful, the thief honest, the lewd pure, the proud humble. The whole moral texture of the life is altered. The thoughts, the desires, the affections are transformed, and the man is no longer what he had been before.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
21c. 1930 ADWe get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.A.W. Tozer / quote ↗
22c. 1930 ADWhen 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 / quote ↗
23c. 1930 ADThe Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. He is manifest only when and as we are aware of His Presence. On our part there must be surrender to the Spirit of God, for His work it is to show us the Father and the Son. If we co-operate 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1930 ADIt 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 / quote ↗
