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Post by foxy on Aug 17, 2014 1:25:41 GMT
“The man who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk… It is this that drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else.”
- A.W. Tozer, The Loneliness of The Christian
“I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. 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.”
~ A.W. Tozer, Man, The Dwelling Place of God
“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.”
- A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous
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Post by foxy on Aug 19, 2014 4:06:20 GMT
“He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul – short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God’s house consumed Him. ‘Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.’” ~ Jim Elliot
“God, I pray thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.” ~ Jim Elliot
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Post by foxy on Aug 20, 2014 23:45:40 GMT
“All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.” “All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test—if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit.” Charles Spurgeon
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Post by foxy on Aug 26, 2014 19:16:35 GMT
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.” - A.W.Tozer
“Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.” ― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
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