Aiden Wilson Tozer - The Pursuit of God (1948)

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As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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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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The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.

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To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.

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Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us....

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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

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To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

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Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.

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Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free.

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The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

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When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM."

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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.

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Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

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God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

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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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The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

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Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

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Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.

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Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.

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... if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame. (forward).

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