The Pursuit of God
There is a holy restlessness in the human soul that Christianity has long tried to silence, and A.W. Tozer refused to let it lie. Written in 1948, this compact but devastating book asks an uncomfortable question: why do so many believers know about God but hardly know Him? Tozer, a pastor who never earned a formal degree, wrote with the authority of a man who had stared into his own spiritual bankruptcy and found grace waiting on the other side. He argues that God initiaties the pursuit of Him, that divine longing precedes human desire, and that the tragedy of modern Christianity is that we have settled for belief instead of encounter. Each chapter pulses with urgent prayer, biblical meditation, and a refusal to let readers off easy. This is not a book for the spiritually comfortable. It is for those willing to abandon the scaffolding of doctrine for the terrifying intimacy of actually knowing God. More than seventy years later, it remains a lantern for those who suspect their faith has grown routine, and that the God who redeemd them might be closer, and stranger, than they dared imagine.
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“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.””
— A. W. Tozer
“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 each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met 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.””
— A. W. Tozer
“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts””
— A. W. Tozer
“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.””
— A. W. Tozer
“Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.””
— A. W. Tozer
“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.””
— A. W. Tozer
“Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.””
— A. W. Tozer
“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust””
— A. W. Tozer
“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.””
— A. W. Tozer
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