And to expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence. – A.W. Tozer – Chan, Francis; Forgotten God: Reversing the Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit; David [...]
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Oh ‘Christian,’ In This, Do Not Persist
Posted in Tozer, A.W., tagged Holy Spirit on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We Have a Cheap, Synthetic Power as a Substitute
Posted in Tozer, A.W., tagged Holy Power, Pleasure, Spirituality on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We may as face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher pleasure in the things of the Spirit is all but gone…[We] have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and [...]
The Gravest Question Before the Church and Man
Posted in Tozer, A.W., tagged Church, Worship on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us…Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what [...]