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Whether you are thirsting for more of God or do not yet know of the "mighty longing after God" that so consumed A.W. Tozer's life and ministry, The Pursuit of God will draw you into a deep, abiding relationship with the One who "nourishes the soul." This spiritual masterpiece exposes the... read more
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“The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough old miser within us will not lie down and die obedient to our command. He must be torn out of our heart like a plant from the soil; he must be extracted in agony and blood like a tooth from the jaw. He must be expelled from our soul by as Christ expelled the money changers from the temple. (page 20)”
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“God is a person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may”
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“the highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual”
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“In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue”
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The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
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He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret. There is the sweet theology of the heart which can be learned only in the school of renunciation.
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God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
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To be specific, the self-sins are self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them.
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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. 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.
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Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted.
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“Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.”
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The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One.
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How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made to center upon the initial act of “accepting” Christ (a term, incidentally, which is not found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls.
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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.
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Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which, briefly stated, means that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.
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Introduction
Preface
I Following Hard after God
II The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
III Removing the Veil
IV Apprehending God
V The Universal Presence
VI The Speaking Voice
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- A. W. Tozer (Author)
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- Library of Congress: BV4817 .T6 2007
- Dewey: 248.4
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