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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [author] author Tozer, A.W. [isbn] isbn 0875093663 [isbn13] isbn13 9780875093666 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 128 pp [avg rating] avg rating 4.37 [num ratings] num ratings 28,702 [date pub] date pub 1948 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Jun 01, 1982 [rating] Elise's rating 4 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [review] review This book fed my intellectual need to understand God on an academic level AND my heart's desire to put my constant analysis of all-things-spiritual to This book fed my intellectual need to understand God on an academic level AND my heart's desire to put my constant analysis of all-things-spiritual to rest and just indulge in a relationship with the divine, uninhibited by mental roadblocks. Tozer dives deeply into the inward difference between a religious life ruled by obeying checklists, and an intimate, passionate relationship with an almighty God that leaves us - quite similar to passionate human relationships - longing to hear His voice and waking up in the morning anxious to please Him and spend time in His presence. The superficial, cheapened version - going through the motions and checking the lists - has been a life long struggle for me. I appreciated Tozer's description of finding holiness in the day-to-day, from common acts of gardening or the labor of paid work, to grand life-callings and soul-saving. “We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.” “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.” “In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities and will not be put off with words, nor will they be content with correct "interpretations" of truth. They are athirst for God, and they will not be satisfied till they have drunk deep at the Fountain of Living Water.” ...more [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started not set [date read] date read Mar 09, 2015 [date added] date added Mar 09, 2015 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Paperback [29] actions view (with text) [title] 
title The Pursuit of God
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