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The chapters in this book were originally published as editorials in Alliance Life magazine, written by one of this century's most quotable preachers, A.W.
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“The importance of all this cannot be overestimated as we think and study and pray. It reveals the essential spirituality of mankind. It denies that man is a creature having a spirit and declares that he is a spirit having a body. That which makes him a human being is not his body but his spirit, in which the image of God originally lay.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 1 -
“He calls us to leave he old life and to begin the new. There must never be any vacuum, never any place of neutrality where the world cannot identify us. Peter warming himself at the world's fire and trying to seem unconcerned is an example of the kind of halfway discipleship too many are satisfied with. The martyr leaping up in the arena, demanding to be thrown to the lions along with his suffering brethren, is an example of the only kind of dedication that God approves.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 2 -
“The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 3 -
“What we need to restore power to the Christian testimony is not soft talk about brotherhood but an honest recognition that two human races occupy the earth simultaneously: a fallen race that sprang from the loins of Adam and a regenerate race that is born of the Spirit through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 4 -
“For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I cannot have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 4 -
“In their search for facts men have confused truths with truth. The words of Christ, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," have been wrenched from their context and used to stir people to the pursuit of knowledge of many kinds with the expectation of being made "free" by knowledge. Certainly this is not what Christ had in mind when He uttered the words.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 5 -
“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoram, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it."”
Francis Bacon - as quoted in Chapter 5 -
“Chrisianity today is man-centered, not God-centered. God is made to wait patiently, even respectfully, on the whims of men. The image of God currently popular is that of a distracted Father, struggling in heartbroken desperation to get people to accept a Saviour of whom they feel no need and in whom they have very little interest. To persuade these self-sufficient souls to respond to His generous offers God will do almost anything, even using salesmanship methods and talking down to them in the chummiest way imaginable. This view of things is, of course, a kind of religious romanticism which, while it often uses flattering and sometimes embarassing terms in praise of God, manages nevertheless to make man the star of the show.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 6 -
“In natural matters faith follows evidence and is impossible without it, but in the realm of the spirit faith precedes understanding; it does not follow it. The natural man must know in order to believe; the spiritual man must believe in order to know. The faith that saves is not a conclusion drawn from evidence; it is a moral thing, a thing of the spirit, a supernatural infusion of confidence in Jesus Christ, a very gift of God.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 6 -
“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God said it, and if the statement should contradict every one of the five senses and all the conclusions of logic as well, still the believer continues to believe. "Let God be true, but every man a liar," is the language of true faith. Heaven approves such faith because it rises above mere proofs and rests in the bosom of God.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 7 -
“In recent years among certain evangelicals there has arisen a movement designed to prove the truths of Scriptures by appeal to science. Evidence is sought in the natural world to support supernatural revelation. Snowflakes, blood, stones, strange marine creatures, birds and many other natural objects are brought forward as proof that the Bible is true. This is touted as being a great support to faith, the idea being that if a Bible doctrine can be proved to be true, faith will spring up and flourish as a consequence.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 7 -
“What these brethren do not see is that the very fact that they feel a necessity to seek proof for the truths of the Scriptures proves something else altogether, namely, their own basic unbelief. When God speaks unbelief asks, "How shall I know that this is true?" I AM THAT I AM is the only grounds for faith. To dig among the rocks or search under the sea for evidence to support the Scriptures is to insult the One who wrote them. Certainly I do not believe that this is done intentionally; but I cannot see how we can escape the conclusion that it is done, nevertheless.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 7 -
“To such a man God is not a conclusion drawn from evidence nor is He the sum of what the Bible teaches about Him. He knows God in the last irreducible meaning of the word know. It may almost be said that God happened to him.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 12 -
“The church today is suffering from the secularization of the sacred. By accepting the world's values, thinking its thoughts and adopting its ways we have dimmed the glory that shines overhead. We have not been able to bring earth to the judgment of heaven so we have brought heaven to the judgment of the earth.”
A.W. Tozer - Chapter 13
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The natural man must know in order to believe; the spiritual man must believe in order to know.
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Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
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It denies that man is a creature having a spirit and declares that he is a spirit having a body. That which makes him a human being is not his body but his spirit, in which the image of God originally lay.
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THE MAN WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONVINCED that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.
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For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I cannot have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.
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Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
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One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion.
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The love the Bible enjoins is not the love of feeling; it is the love of willing, the willed tendency of the heart.
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Faith as the Bible knows it is confidence in God and His Son Jesus Christ; it is the response of the soul to the divine character as revealed in the Scriptures; and even this response is impossible apart from the prior inworking of the Holy Spirit. Faith is a gift of God to a penitent soul and has nothing whatsoever to do with the senses or the data they afford. Faith is a miracle; it is the ability God gives to trust His Son, and anything that does not result in action in accord with the will of God is not faith but something else short of it.
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The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is not true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only. Where real repentance is, there is obedience; for repentance is not only sorrow for past failures and sins, it is a determination to begin now to do the will of God as He reveals it to us.
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First Sentence edit
DEEP INSIDE EVERY MAN there is a private sanctum where dwells the mysterious essence of his being.
Table of Contents edit
Preface
1. Man: The Dwelling Place of God
2. The Call of Christ
3. What We Think of Ourselves Is Important
4. The Once-born and the Twice-born
5. On the Origin and Nature of Things
6. Why People Find the Bible Difficult
7. Faith: The Misunderstood Doctrine
8. True Religion Is Not Feeling but Willing
9. How to Make Spiritual Progress
10. The Old Cross and the New
11. There Is No Wisdom in Sin
12. Three Degrees of Religious Knowledge
13. The Sanctification of the Secular
14. God Must Be Loved for Himself
15. True Faith Is Active. Not Passive
16. On Taking Too Much for Granted
17. The Cure for a Fretful Spirit
18. Boasting or Belittling
19. The Communion of Saints
20. Temperament in the Christian Life
21. Does God Always Answer Prayer?
22. Self-deception and How to Avoid It
23. On Breeding Spotted Mice
24. The Unknown Saints
25. Three Faithful Wounds
26. The Wrath of God: What Is It?
27. In Praise of Dogmatism
28. What Men Live By
29. How to Try the Spirits
30. Religious Boredom
31. The Church Cannot Die
32. The Lordship of the Man Jesus Is Basic
33. A Do-It-Yourself Education Better Than None
34. Some Thoughts on Books and Reading
35. The Decline of Apocalyptic Expectation
36. Choices Reveal - and Make - Character
37. The Importance of Sound Doctrine
38. Some Things Are Not Negotiable
39. The Saint Must Walk Alone
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- A. W. Tozer (Author)
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- Dewey: 200
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