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The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience QUOTES

41 " Self-will distorts the smiling face of God and veils the fact that God’s will has our best interest in mind for the long run. Self-will is only concerned about now. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

42 " The only Christians you want to listen to are the ones who give you more of a hunger for God. You cannot know all that God has, but you can know all that God has revealed in Christ to your soul, which is infinitely more than you now know. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

43 " For any Christian to use Scripture without the Spirit is like engaging in a battle with a paper sword. It is not the Word only that will turn back the devil; rather, it is the Word and the power. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

44 " Often, the only way the world can see Christ is through revelation brought by the Christian’s experience in the Refiner’s Fire. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

45 " There are men in evangelicalism today who are just ordinary men with no longing after God. They grind out their sermons week after week, take little trips here and there, fish and play golf and fool around and then come back and preach. They go on and spend their lives that way. But you cannot speak with them for long because there is nothing of substance to talk about after you have done a little chitchat business.
Not all preachers are that way. There are some whom you can speak with for hours on end and talk about God and Christ. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

46 " Probably there is no greater offense in all of Christendom than speed-reading the Bible. The Bible must be read slowly and meditatively, allowing the Spirit of God to open up our understanding. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

47 " Let us do away with our secular and worldly minds and cultivate sanctified minds. We have to do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they no longer are worldly but are as much a part of our offering to God as anything else we give to Him. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

48 " Believe God There are times when all we can do is believe God and what He says. Believe Him in love. The author of The Cloud of Unknowing says, “God Himself can no man think. . . . He may well be loved, but not thought.” Almighty God created the universe, and His presence overflows into immense degrees and can never be surrounded by that little thing we call our head, our intellect. He knows that all we can do is seek but never arrive at God. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

49 " Some might ask, “How can I pursue my studies? How can I do my housework? How can I carry on my business?” You carry on your business, do your housework and pursue your studies by making them a part of an offering to God as certainly as the money you put in the offering plate or anything else you give openly and publicly to God. Living the crucified life precludes this divided life. A life that is partly secular, partly spiritual, partly of this world and partly of the world above is not what the New Testament teaches at all. As Christians, we can turn some of the most hopeless jobs into wonderful spiritual prayer meetings, if we will simply turn them over to God. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

50 " Those of you who work in big offices surrounded by people who are not Christians cannot easily fit into the conversation when break time comes. You act awkwardly, and you are worried and ashamed and wonder why. It is because you belong to God. You have another spirit; you know another language, and you speak this world’s language with an accent. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

51 " Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. JOSHUA 1:2-3 You can always test the quality of religious teaching by the enthusiastic reception it receives from unsaved men. If the natural man receives it enthusiastically, it is not of the Spirit of God. Paul says plainly that the natural man cannot know "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

52 " We do not allow God to be Himself. We have lost all sense of knowing God as He is, and consequently we try to make God out to be what He is not. Instead of accepting the fact that we were created in His image, we have deteriorated to the point of believing that God has been created in our image. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

53 " What you hang on to will weigh you down and hinder you in your pursuit of spiritual perfection. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

54 " Sometimes a trial comes along, and we run to the Bible, pull out a quote and say, “According to this Scripture right here, we got it.” We have certain confidence in ourselves. We think we know exactly what is going on. The problem is that we do not know what is happening, and so God will deal with our self-trust. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

55 " Every local church is only as good as the individual members are, not one bit better. If "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

56 " If a young Christian would spend one year reading through and meditating on the hymns of Isaac Watts alone, he would have a better theological education than four years in Bible college and four years in seminary. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

57 " When you do not have anything real inside of you, you try to get something on the outside that suggests something real. It is a well-known fact that when the fire goes out in the furnace, they paint the outside to make it look as if the fire was still there. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

58 " If I were to choose my cross and the time of my crucifixion, I would always choose the lesser of two evils. But when the Holy Spirit chooses, He chooses both the time of the crucifixion and the cross upon which He will crucify us. Our responsibility is to yield to His wisdom and allow Him to do the work without any advice from us. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

59 " These two things will go a long way in breaking the static condition. First, living the crucified life involves completely forsaking the world. Second, the crucified life means turning fully to the Lord Jesus Christ. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience

60 " you.” So they said, “You’ll kill our poor women. You’ll kill our children.” This is "

― A.W. Tozer , The Crucified Life: How To Live Out A Deeper Christian Experience