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The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy QUOTES

1 " For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself “up to speed” with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer’s thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

2 " We are not worshiping God on the throne but have come to the point of worshiping the shadow of the throne. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

3 " Some Christians have taken all the justice, judgment and hatred of sin out of the nature of God and have nothing left but a soft god. Others have taken love and grace out and have nothing left but a god of judgment. Or they have taken away the personality of God and have nothing left but a mathematical god—the god of the scientists. All these are false, inadequate conceptions of God. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

4 " It is not by reading the Scriptures in the original languages or in some contemporary version that makes us better Christians. Rather, it is getting on our knees with the Scriptures spread before us, and allowing the Spirit of God to break our hearts. Then, when we have been thoroughly broken before God Almighty, we get up off our knees, go out into the world and proclaim the glorious message of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

5 " So, my Christian friend, if you are settling back, snuggling into your foam rubber chair and resting in your faith in John 3:16 and the fact that you have accepted Jesus Christ, you had better watch yourself. Take heed, lest you also be found wanting. Take heed of your own heart, lest when all is said and done, you have become tied in with the world. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

6 " When a man rises and says, “I believe the Bible” and then ignores the teachings of the Bible on his own pet subjects, he is rejecting the Word more insidiously than outright disbelief. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

7 " Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk. It is only out of the silence that the Word speaks. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

8 " I want to emphasize and lay upon your conscience to practice anticipatory prayer, because battles are lost before they are fought. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

9 " My heart has no desire to stay Where doubts arise and fears dismay; Though some may dwell where these abound, My prayer, my aim, is higher ground. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

10 " There is only one way to make good on an intention, and that is to turn it into action. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

11 " The Early Church was in wonderment at Christ. He dazzled them and stirred within such feelings of amazement that they could never get over Christ. All they talked about was Christ. All they thought about, from morning to night, was Christ. Christ was their only reason for living, and they were more than willing to die for Him. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

12 " I am but a man of dust and ashes, a man with all the natural faults and passions that plague the race of men. I pray Thee therefore, my Lord and Redeemer, save me from myself and from all the injuries I may do myself while trying to be a blessing to others. Fill me with thy power by "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

13 " We are constantly being fed harmful ideas that we adopt and learn to believe in, thinking they are all right, and so we ignorantly follow. This is done without our knowing that a keen, sharp, unscrupulous mind is seeking to control us. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

14 " The true Christian has an insatiable appetite for Christ and the things of Christ, while the world has no such appetite. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

15 " The Bible has no compromise whatsoever with the world. The Bible has a message for the evangelical church, calling it back home. The Bible always sends us out into the world, but never to compromise with the world; and never to walk in the way of the world, but only to save as many as we can. That is the one direction. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

16 " Boredom with religion is conceivable, but being bored with God is not. Those who have encountered God and His mighty, awesome presence could never come to the point of boredom. Religion, however, with all of its tiresome dos and don’ts, sets us up for such boredom. Anyone who tries to follow his religion religiously experiences great moments of boredom in the minutia. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

17 " No miramos atrás con objeto de volver atrás. No, miramos atrás para asegurarnos de que seguimos avanzando en la dirección correcta. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

18 " Then there is the effective dissemination of ideas from radio, television, film, magazines, books and the Internet. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

19 " Spiritual sophistication lacks freshness and warmth; God is far away, and there is little communion and little joy in the Lord. To have a cold heart with little pity, little fire, little love and little worship is spiritual lethargy. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy