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Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You QUOTES

1 " The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

2 " The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

3 " For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

4 " One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

5 " The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is not true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only. Where real repentance is, there is obedience; for repentance is not only sorrow for past failures and sins, it is a determination to begin now to do the will of God as He reveals it to us. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

6 " Any objection to the carryings on of our present golden-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, "But we are winning them!" And winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To nobility of character? To a despising of the world's treasures? To hard self-discipline? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is no. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

7 " It is now common practice in most evangelical churches to offer the people, especially the young people, a maximum of entertainment and a minimum of serious instruction. It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God. One can only conclude that God's professed children are bored with Him, for they must be wooed to meeting with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games and refreshments. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

8 " All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever" (I John 2:16, 17) . "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

9 " What we need to restore power to the Christian testimony is not soft talk about brotherhood but an honest recognition that two human races occupy the earth simultaneously: a fallen race that sprang from the loins of Adam and a regenerate race that is born of the Spirit through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

10 " They who believe the Christian revelation know that the universe is a creation. It is not eternal, since it had a beginning, and it is not the result of a succession of happy coincidences whereby an all but infinite number of matching parts accidentally found each other, fell into place and began to hum. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

11 " The God-always-answers-prayer sophistry leaves the praying man without discipline. By the exercise of this bit of smooth casuistry he ignores the necessity to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, and actually takes God's flat refusal to answer his prayer as the very answer itself. Of course such a man will not grow in holiness; he will never learn how to wrestle and wait; he will never know correction; he will not hear the voice of God calling him forward; he will never arrive at the place where he is morally and spiritually fit to have his prayers answered. His wrong philosophy has ruined him. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

12 " Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

13 " Peter warming himself at the world’s fire and trying to seem unconcerned is an example of the kind of halfway discipleship too many are satisfied with. The martyr leaping up in the arena, demanding to be thrown to the lions along with his suffering brethren, is an example of the only kind of dedication that God approves "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

14 " Not facts, not scientific knowledge, but eternal Truth delivers men, and that eternal Truth became flesh to dwell among us. "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

15 " Were men everywhere to ignore the things that matter little or not at all and give serious attention to the few really important things, most of the walls that divide men would be thrown down at once and a world of endless sufferings ended. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

16 " True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God said it, and if the statement should contradict every one of the five senses and all the conclusions of logic as well, still the believer continues to believe. "Let God be true, but every man a liar," is the language of true faith. Heaven approves such faith because it rises above mere proofs and rests in the bosom of God. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

17 " The trouble is that we do not receive the benefits of all this until something radical has happened in our own experience, something which in its psychological effects approaches actual crucifixion. What Christ went through we also must go through. Rejection, surrender, loss, a violent detachment from the world, the pain of social ostracism—all must be felt in our actual experience. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

18 " Always remember: You cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

19 " We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. God offers life, but not an improved old life. The life He offers is life out of death. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You

20 " THE COMPLACENCY of CHRISTIANS is the scandal of Christianity. "

― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You