Finishing up February reading two books, The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer and Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias. Both have been good, but I’ve been enjoying Tozer a little more … signs that the mystic is overcoming the apologist in my old age …
So here are several quotes, some from each.
Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer:
We Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word. We have almost forgotten that God is a person and, as such, can be cultivated as any person can.
How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers.
The blessed ones who possess the kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the “poor in spirit.”
There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is natural, it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is. But its outworkings are tragic.
Ransomed men need no longer pause in fear to enter the Holy of Holies. God wills that we should push on into His presence and live our whole lives there.
The world is perishing for the lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famished for want of His presnence. 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 God in us.
… the highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is Spirit and only the spirit of a man can know Him really.
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without any thing other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias
Truth by definition excludes.
Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.
Young dreams may be wild ones, but they are never corrected by ridiculing them.
Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion.
Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality.
Peace.
Your blog is interesting. I am glad to find another christian with refreshing ideas. I have a blog called “Bluenoser” but I have left it idle for some time. I found your blog about christian artists very true and it is so sad that the christian music industry is so commercial and ridiculous. I have lost alot of respect for christian music and find myself listening to secular musicians like U2. At least he has a heart for the poor and I have read that he professes Christ. I must look up Third Day. I have their first two albums but seldom listen to them. Anyway keep your blog interesting.
sincerely in Christ
Hobbit
I also neglected to say that I listen to a lot of celtic music like Iona, Moira Brennan, Eden’s Bridge, etc. These folk are christian and add a beauty to the sounds of gospel and worship.
hobbit