Here
are some favorite quotes
from previous
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Archive
of Past Quotes
By Topic
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Poor in Spirit
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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. These are the 'poor in spirit'"
The Pursuit of God, 23
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Potential
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"I find that many men
and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential
in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble -- we are
actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are
too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!
....Man is bored, because he is
too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made
him too great, his potential is too mighty."
Who Put Jesus on the Cross, 170.
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"When our Lord looked at us,
He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could
become! He took away the curse of being and gave us the glorious
blessing of becoming.
Who Put Jesus on the Cross,
166"
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Prayer
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All things
being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the
long pull we pray only as well as we live. Some prayers are like
a fire escape, used only in times of critical emergency -- never very enjoyable,
but used as a way of terrified escape from disaster. They do not
represent the regular life of the one who offers them; rather are the unusual
and uncommon acts of the spiritual amateur.
The Root
of the Righteous, 81.
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"Prayer is never an acceptable
substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering
from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray
for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid
down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our
trouble."
Of God and Men, 52.
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"When I am praying the most
eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life.
But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up
and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with
such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on
what God is saying to my heart."
Success and the Christian, 46-47
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Pursuit of God
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"Our pursuit
of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself
to us."
Pursuit
of God, 65.
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To have found God and still
to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied
religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning
heart.
The Pursuit of God, 14
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Quality of Christianity
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"We need to improve the quality
of our Christianity and we never will until we raise our concept of God
back to that held by apostle, sage, prophet, saint and reformer. When we
put God back where he really belongs, we will instinctively and automatically
move up again; the whole spiral of our religious direction will be upward."
The Attributes of God, 195.
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Secular or Sacred?
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"It is
not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular,
it is why he does it. The motive is everything."
The Pursuit
of God, 127
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Seeking God
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"God being who He is must always
be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else."
"Whoever seeks God as a means toward
desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and
earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures.
He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used."
Man the Dwelling Place of God,
56-57
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The yearning to know What cannot
be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable,
arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto
deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians
call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source.
The Knowledge of the Holy, 9.
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"We Christians must simplify
our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity."
The Pursuit of God, 103
"The abuse
of a harmless thing is the essence of sin."
A.W. Tozer
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Sovereignty of God
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"The notion that hostile persons
or unfavorable circumstances can prevent the will of God from being fulfilled
in a human life is altogether erroneous. Nothing, no one, can hinder
God or a good man."
The Root of the Righteous, 128
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Spirituality
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We may as well face it: the
whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves
by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things
of the Spirit is all but gone."
Of God and Men, 12.
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Spiritual Warfare
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"The Christian
is a Holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.
Satan never knows from where the danger will come."
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Time (from God's perspective)
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"God dwells in eternity but
time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He
has lived all our yesterdays."
The Knowledge of the Holy, 45.
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"God never
hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work."
The Knowledge
of the Holy, 53.
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Trouble
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"To be right with God has often
meant to be in trouble with men."
Man the Dwelling Place of God,
114.
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Truth
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"Truth is a glorious but hard
mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises."
Of God and Men, 39
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Truth (Application Necessary)
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For a long time I have believed
that truth, to be understood must be lived; that Bible doctrine is wholly
ineffective until it has been digested and assimilated by the total life.
That Incredible Christian, 92.
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"There
is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for
its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical
sense, but something else and something less."
Of God
and Men, 26
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Wasting our Lives
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Actually, I do find Christians
these days who seem to have largely wasted their lives. They were
converted to Christ but they have never sought to go on to an increasing
knowledge of God. There is untold loss and failure because they have
accepted the whole level of things around them as being normal and desirable.
The Counselor, 130.
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Wisdom of God
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"Wisdom, among other things,
is the the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by
the most perfect means....All God's acts are done in perfect wisdom, first
for His own glory, and then for the highest good of the greatest number
for the longest time. And all His acts are as pure as they are wise,
and as good as they are wise and pure. Not only could His acts not
be better done: a better way to do them could not be imagined."
The Knowledge of the Holy, 60-61
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Work of the Lord
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"We have become so engrossed
in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work."
The Banner, Dec. 4, 70, p.
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Worship
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Worship
means "to feel in the heart"....Worship also means to "express in some
appropriate manner" what you feel....and what will be expressed?
"A humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder."
Worship The
Missing Jewel of the Evangelical Church 8, 9 |
"...no
religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure
or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God."
The Knowledge
of the Holy, 9.
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"Men who
refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion."
A.W. Tozer
The Divine Conquest, 52.
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"Without doubt the emphasis
in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little
danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical
implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in
truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That
is the divine order and it can never be reversed."
Born After Midnight, 126. |
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"Worship, I say, rises or falls
with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the
Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is."
Worship: The Missing Jewel of the
Evangelical Church, 25. |
God dwells in the heart where
praise is. Man is made to admire something and he admires.
And when he admires to the point of incandescent white heat charged with
mystery, that's worship.
Tozer on Worship and Entertainment, 34
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Now, worship is the missing
jewel in modern evangelicalism. We're organized; we work; we have our agendas.
We have almost everything, but there's one thing that the churches, even
the gospel churches, do not have: that is the ability to worship. We are
not cultivating the art of worship.
Worship: The Missing Jewel, 20.
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