Today’s Quote (10/12/08)

A. W. Tozer, That Incredible Christian: The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration […]

Today’s Quote (9/24/08)

A. W. Tozer, The Radical Cross: The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world.

Today’s Quote (9/23/08)

A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy: The certainty that God is always near us, present in all parts of His world, closer to us than our thoughts, should maintain us in a state of high moral happiness most of the time. But not all the time. It would be less than honest to […]

Today’s Quote (9/1/08)

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: It is not what a man does that determines whether or not his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.

Holiness — or the lack thereof

As I was reading again in Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy earlier this week, I came across these two sentences in his chapter on God’s holiness: Until we have seen ourselves as God sees us, we are not likely to be much disturbed over conditions around us as long as they do not get […]

The great "I am" and a correction

Tozer said it well when he wrote the following in The Pursuit of God: There must be somewhere a fixed center against which everything else is measured, where the law of relativity does not enter and we can say “IS” and make no allowances. Such a center is God. When God would make His Name […]

Tozer on entertainment

A. W. Tozer summarized the dangers of entertainment for our day (and he wrote this some 45 years ago) in his essay “The Great God Entertainment” (published in The Root of the Righteous): …the ominous thing is that [entertainment’s] power is almost exclusively evil, rotting the inner life, crowding out the long eternal thoughts which […]