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If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

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Pride, Men, Honor

All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

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Prayer, Powerful, Long

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

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Essence, Entertainment, Idolatry
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.6, Fig

A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another.

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Christian, Heaven, Virtue

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

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Children, Eye, Sea

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.

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God, Men, Choices

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

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Book, Reader

I did not go through the Book. The Book went through me.

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Book

God dwells in the heart where praise is.

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Heart, Praise

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

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Want, Presence Of God

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

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Grief, Character, Sorrow

To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

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Christian, Play, Ease

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

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Thanksgiving, Blessing, Thankful To God

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

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Moving, Law, Soul
"The Knowledge of the Holy".

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

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Light, Soul, Zombie
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.22, Fig

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

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Heart, Moral, Chaos

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

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Gods Will, Plenty, Ifs

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

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Christian, Feelings, Thrill

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

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God, Christian, Religious

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

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Done, Lord, Ifs

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

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Christian, Children, Heart

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

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Way, Infinite, Better Ways
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.69, Fig

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

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Christian, Prayer, Blessed
"More Than a Savior: When Jesus Calls You Friend". Book by Robert Crosby, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

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Thinking, Men, Facts
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.32, Fig

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Grief, Men, Tragedy

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