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21 " THE MAN WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONVINCED that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place. "
― A.W. Tozer , Man the Dwelling Place of God: What it Means to Have Christ Living in You
22 " Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. "
23 " It is as true today as it was in Bible times that the man who hates his sins too much will get into trouble with those who do not hate sin enough. People resent having their friends turn away from them and by implication condemn their way of life. "
24 " Grant that men possess perpetual being and the preciousness of every earthly treasure is gone instantly. God is to our eternal being what our heart is to our body. The lungs, the liver, the kidneys have value as they relate to the heart. Let the heart stop and the rest of the organs promptly collapse. Apart from God, what is money, fame, education, civilization? Exactly nothing at all, for men must leave all these things behind them and one by one go to eternity. Let God hide His face and nothing thereafter is worth the effort. "
25 " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoram," said Bacon, "than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. "
26 " It should be evident that there can be no true Christian sharing unless there is first an impartation of life. An organization and a name do not make a church. One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. "
27 " To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground. "
28 " Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education. "
29 " Self-derogation is bad for the reason that self must be there to derogate. Self, whether swaggering or groveling, can never be anything but hateful to God. "
30 " Boasting is an evidence that we are pleased with self; belittling, that we are disappointed in it. "
31 " The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. What he is or is not no longer concerns him. He believes that he has been crucified with Christ and he is not willing either to praise or deprecate such a man. "
32 " Christ is now where the man’s ego was formerly. The man is now Christ-centered instead of self-centered, and he forgets himself in his delighted preoccupation with Christ. "
33 " Our choices reveal what kind of persons we are, but there is another side to the coin. We may, by our choices, also determine what kind of persons we will become. We humans are not only in a state of being, we are in a state of becoming; "
34 " To be called to follow Christ is a high honor; higher indeed than any honor men can bestow upon each other. "
35 " The newborn Christian is a migrant; he has come into the kingdom of God from his old home in the kingdom of man and he must get set for the violent changes that will inevitably follow. "
36 " The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room. “No fears, no grace,” said Bunyan. “Though there is not always grace where there is fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God. "
37 " but the human soul is too great to attribute greatness to itself, and certainly too great to believe that things or events can possess true greatness. The greatness that men seem to have is as the greatness of moonlight, which is but the glory of the sun reflected. Man's glory is borrowed. He shines in the light that never was on land or sea. He reflects God's greatness but has none of his own. "
38 " true today as it was in Bible times that the man who hates his sins too much will get into trouble with those who do not hate sin enough. "
39 " The truth is that God always answers the prayer that accords with His will as revealed in the Scriptures, provided the one who prays is obedient and trustful. Further than this we dare not go. "
40 " Indeed faith leaves no area of the new believer’s life unaffected. "