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61 " Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet real and it may be those who can light their candle at its flame. "
― A.W. Tozer , The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
62 " In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. "
63 " A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. "
64 " Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. "
65 " It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. "
66 " To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program. "
67 " Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed. "
68 " That I may know Him," was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything. "
69 " If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing. "
70 " To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us. "
71 " faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. "
72 " To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual. "
73 " The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion. "
74 " The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do. "
75 " The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, "
76 " The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. "
77 " It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular; it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act. All he does is good and acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For such a man, living itself will be sacramental and the whole world a sanctuary. His entire life will be a priestly ministration. As he performs his never-so-simple task, he will hear the voice of the seraphim saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of the hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. "
78 " All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man to the fullest, most intimate communion of which the human soul is capable. Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God. "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. "
79 " God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. "
80 " Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.... "