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.
A.W. TozerTag: prophet word-of-god scribe
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
A.W. TozerContemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him.
A.W. TozerTag: forgiveness prayer boldness
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
A.W. TozerTag: depravity image-of-god brokeness
Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
A.W. TozerWhen God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
A.W. TozerTag: mercy
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
A.W. TozerTag: mercy
All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.
A.W. TozerTag: holiness sanctification
He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
A.W. TozerTag: christianity possessions
Every man must choose his world.
A.W. TozerTag: christianity
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