A. W. Tozer Quote of the Week

This Week's Quote:

"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."

The Counselor, 40.

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Here are some favorite quotes from previous weeks:	Past Weeks Quotes: (Listed by Topic) Topics A-G H-O P-Z
	"When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world." Who Put Jesus on the Cross, 105
	"The Spirit of God, His presence and His gifts are not simply desirable in our Christian congregations; they are absolutely imperative!" Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts, 25, 27.
	God always works where His people meet His conditions, but only when and as they do. Any spiritual visitation will be limited or extensive depending how well and how widely conditions are met. The first condition is oneness of mind among the persons who are seeking the visitation. (Psalm 133) Paths to Power, 59
	"Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded." Tragedy in the Church, 27
	If we will let Him, Christ will do in us and through us that which He did in and through the committed believers after Pentecost. The potential is ours. Do we dare believe that the faithful Christian believers may yet experience a great new wave of spiritual power? Tragedy in the Church, 55-56
	"Oh God, come feelingly near!" God drew feelingly near to Moses in the bush and on the mount. He came feelingly near to the church at Pentecost and He came feelingly near to that Corinthian church when the unbelievers went away awe-struck to report that "God is really in their midst!" I am willing to confess in humility that we need this in our day. I Call It Heresy, 71
	"Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage that that can be tortured or twisted into teaching that the organic living church of Jesus Christ just prior to His return will not have every right and every power and every obligation that she knew in that early part of the book of Acts." Tragedy in the Church, 66.
	"Truth that is not experienced is no better than error, and may be fully as dangerous. The scribes who sat in Moses' seat were not the victims of error; they were the victims of their failure to experience what they taught." The Root of the Righteous
	"One characteristic that marks the average church today is lack of anticipation. Christians when they meet do not expect anything unusual to happen; consequently only the usual happens, and that usual is as predictable as the setting of the sun... We need today a fresh spirit of anticipation that springs out of the promises of God. We must declare war on the mood of nonexpectation, and come together with childlike faith. Only then can we know again the beauty and wonder of the Lord's presence among us." God Tells the Man Who Cares, 168,170.
	"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still." Man the Dwelling Place of God.
	"The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people. There is nothing about the Holy Spirit queer or strange or eerie." How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit
	"Oh, brethren, we may lack everything else, but we must have the cloud and fire of His presence; we must have the enabling and the power of the Holy Spirit and the glow of the Shekinah glory--God with us! For then, even lacking everything else, you still have a true church!" Tragedy in the Church, 69
	"Speaking as a minister, it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for." Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts, 62.
	"Many of the doctrinal divisions among the churches are the result of a blind and stubborn insistence that truth has but one wing." That Incredible Christian, 59.
	"At what point, then, does a theological fact become for the one that holds it a life-giving truth? At that point where obedience begins." That Incredible Christian.
	"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." The Counselor, 40.
	"No man has a right to offer advice who has not first heard God speak." The Root of the Righteous, 18.
	"Worship is pure or base as the worshipper entertains high or low thoughts of God. We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God." The Knowledge of the Holy.
	"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." Born After Midnight
	"It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably withour 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" Pursuit of God, 74.
	"In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of the work and quite literally wear our people out as well." That Incredible Christian, 136, 137
	"Always God's goodness is the ground of our expectation." The Knowledge of the Holy, 129.
	"Heaven is a place of surrender to the whole will of God and it is heaven because it is such a place." I Call It Heresy! 17.
	"There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are His yielded and purified people, worshiping and showing forth His glory and His faithfulness." Whatever Happened to Worship?, 101.
	"The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God. Satan never knows from what direction the danger will come." That Incredible Christian, 71.
	"It will be a new day for us when we put away false notions and foolish fears and allow the Holy Spirit to fellowship with us as intimately as He wants to do, to talk to us as Christ talked to His disciples by the sea of Galilee. After that there can be no more loneliness, only the glory of the never-failing Presence." In Pursuit of God, 141 (Biography of Tozer by James L. Snyder).
	"God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship" That Incredible Christian, 37.
	"How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things." God Tells the Man Who Cares, 92.
	"But, oh, the grace of God! God through the plan of salvation in Jesus Christ will go beyond our merits, beyond that which we deserve. Even if our sins have been like a mountain, it is the grace of God that assures our forgiveness." Who Put Jesus on the Cross?, 39.

A.W. Tozer was a Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, author and editor. His comments are always filled with wisdom and insight. I hope that you will be inspired to read more about Tozer and read more of Tozer's timeless classics. May I suggest: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy as two excellent places to start. James Snyder's biography of Tozer called In Pursuit of God is also excellent. You can get these books and many others at Christian Publications' Web Page. Please bookmark this page and make a weekly visit!

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