Monday, July 14, 2008

More from Tozer...The Pursuit of God...My favorites

"Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship."

"'Be thou exalted' (Psalm 21:13) is the language of victorious spiritual experience. It is a little key to unlock the door to great treasures of grace... His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity."

"Not perfection, but holy intention made the difference."

"God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do."

"Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort... Come on, humble yourself and cease to care what men think."

"Artificiality is one cures that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. 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."

"Keep reminding God in our times of private prayer that we mean every act for His glory; then supplement those times by a thousand thought-prayers as we go about the job of living. Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there."

"It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything."

1 comment:

Grace said...

Those are beautiful quotes, Ashley! I need to read more Tozer. :)
How are you? I hope you're enjoying your summer!