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A.W.Tozer

The Pursuit of God

  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    We must ascend a step at a time. If we refuse one step we bring our progress to an end.
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    The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things.
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    it would seem that there is within each of us an enemy which we tolerate at our peril. Jesus called it "life" and "self," or as we would say, the self-life
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    Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne

    We now deal with spiritual warfare. We are naturally “bad” people.

  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight

    Like Job when he lost his materialistic things.

  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    The Cloud of Unknowing

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  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One
  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    If we omit the "and" we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.
  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire.
  • Sha'Kaylen Moorehar citeretfor 9 måneder siden
    Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him.
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