In a world of change and decay not even the man of faith can be completely happy. Instinctively he seeks the unchanging and is bereaved at the passing of dear familiar things. Yet much as we may deplore the lack of stability in all earthly things, in a fallen world such as this the very ability to change is a golden treasure, a gift from God of such fabulous worth as to call for constant thanksgiving. For human beings the whole possibility of redemption lies in their ability to change. To move across from one sort of person to another is the essence of repentance; the liar becomes truthful, the thief honest, the lewd pure, the proud humble. The whole moral texture of the life is altered. The thoughts, the desires, the affections are transformed, and the man is no longer what he had been before.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: change faith transformation redemption
If JESUS cannot control you, HE cannot save you. And if HE cannot control ALL of you HE cannot control any of you.
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Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
A.W. TozerTens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ and they have not been saved.
A.W. TozerTrue faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation, there is no faith.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: faith expectation promises
The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: christianity cross
When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: christianity justification sinners
The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart. He had loved us from old eternity and needed nothing to stimulate that love. The cross is not responsible for God's love; rather it was His love which conceived the cross as the one method by which we could be saved. God felt no different toward us after Christ had died for us, for in the mind of God Christ had already died before the foundation of the world. God never saw us except through atonement. The human race could not have existed one day in its fallen state had not Christ spread His mantle of atonement over it. And this He did in eternal purpose long ages before they led Him out to die on the hill above Jerusalem. All God's dealings with man have been conditioned upon the cross.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: love christianity cross atonement
Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet real and it may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
A.W. TozerGod is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: god spirituality
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