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Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late - and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Believe, Religion, Trying

There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the [christian] life. Because it is so natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.

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Christian, Evil, Doubt

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

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Wrath, Light, Grace

The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

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People, Expectations, Leader

May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

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Spiritual, Children, May

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

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Change, Horse, Men

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

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Heart, Pride, World

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

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Hate, Helping, Sin

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

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Distance, Book, Writing

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

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Christian, Christian Inspirational, Prophecy

Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.

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Heart, Giving, Missing
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.69, Fig

If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of someone who has seen for himself how lovely is the face of Him who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Such a man can help me, and no one else can.

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Motivation, Inspiration, Men

We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

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God, Long, Moral

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

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Crowds, Slave, Let Me

I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and I choose it above all things on Earth or in Heaven.

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Heaven, Earth, Riches

America is laughing her way to Hell.

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America, Laughing, Way

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

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Christian, Religious, Philosophy
"The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

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Church, Stronger, Body

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

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Men, Gone, Compromise

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

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Wise, Religious, Simplicity

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

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Church, Tasks, World

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

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Believe, Opposites, Waiting
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.41, Fig

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.

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Blessed, Thinking, Space

When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

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Lying, Evil, Needs

We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
Unique, Men, Thinking
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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