Book Excerpt

I read the book: 'The Knowledge of the holy' over a year ago, and in the process I could not but pen down some of the inspiring phrases and statements that literally jumped out (or better still 'popped out') of the pages of the book to me then. I like to share with you some of the excerpts from the inspiring book written by A.W. Tozer. I hope these will bless, encourage and strengthen you in the Kingdom Adventure this week.

"The decline of the knowledge of the Holy has brought on our troubles."
"What comes into our minds when we think about God, is the most important thing about us."
"A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian
living as well; it is to worship what the foundation is to the temple."
"What is God like? If by that question we mean 'what is God like in Himself?' there is no answer.
If we mean 'what has God disclosed about Himself that the reverent reason can comprehend?'
there is, I believe, an answer both full and satisfying."
"An attribute of God: whatever God in anyway revealed as being true of Himself."
"What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous."
"Faith comes first to the hearing ear, not to the cogitating mind."
"In His incarnation, the Son veiled His deity, but did not void it. The unity of the Godhead made it impossible that He should surrender anything of His deity."
"Origin is a word that can apply only to things created. When we think of anything that has origin we are not thinking of God. God is self-existent, while all created things necessarily originated somewhere at sometime. Aside from God, nothing is self-caused."
"Sin has many manifestations but its essence is one. A moral being, created to worship before the throne of God, sits on the throne of his own selfhood and from that elevated position declares 'I AM'. That is sin in its concentrated essense."
"To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no necessary relation to anything outside of Himself."
"God dwells in eternity, but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has
lived all our yesterdays."
"God's eternity and man's mortality join to persuade us that faith in Jesus Christ is not optional.
For every man it must be Christ or eternal tragedy."
"Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind."
"Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith."
"With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the
power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favoured of all creatures."
"The greatness of God arouses fear within us, but His goodness encourages us not be afraid of Him. To fear and not to be afraid- that is the paradox of faith."
"Only the Spirit of the Holy One cam impart to the human spirit, the knowledge of the Holy."
"There is a glorified man on the right hand of the majesty in Heaven faithfully representing us
there. We are left for a season among men; let us faithfully represent Him there."

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[pia]

i like the "God dwells in eternity, but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays." God is our everything. He's the beginning and the end.

thanks for sharing this.

[Joe]

Some great words of wisdom!

Thanks!