“The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”1
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.”
“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”
“The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.”
“To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.”
“All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.”
“Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ and they have not been saved.”
“When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.”
“Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.”
“The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.”
“The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.”
“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.”
“Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.”
“Does it not seem strange that the generation with the most advanced technology and the easiest-to-read Bible translations is the weakest generation of Christians in the history of our country? Church attendance has never been lower, and the Christian influence in our culture never weaker.”
“The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His Word.”
“Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.”
“Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition.”
“The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.”
“It is one thing to have a lot of information about God, but it is another thing to bask in the warmth and reality of His presence.”
“The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.”
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites:
Inspirational Quotes by A.W. Tozer