The Pursuit of God

by A. W. Tozer

**Summary**

A.W. Tozer writes about the true spiritual worship, which he found to be lacking in the churches of his generation. People were taught to view religion as a transaction. They were led to receive Jesus in order to secure a future salvation, but they were not encouraged to pursue a personal, intimate relationship with Him
Tozer argues that Christians should seek a life of simplicity, driven by the goal of knowing God and loving Him more. He explains that the restless longing Christians so often feel is actually the grace of God. For this longing keeps us searching for the One in whom we will find our rest and fulfillment.
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Favorite Quotes

“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.”

“The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.”

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged.”

“We must begin with God. We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.”

“We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle Master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.”

“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.”