Essential Tozer Collection

His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in Himself.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. We want to get Him where we can use Him, or at least know where He is when we need Him. We want a God we can in some measure control. We need the feeling of security that comes from knowing what God is like, and what He is like is of course a composite of all the religious pic

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.

”As nothing is more easy than to think,” says Thomas Traherne, ”so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead. Let reason kneel in reverence outside.

A man is the sum of his parts and his character the sum of the traits that compose it.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

”The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Only the Infinite can know the infinite.

The yearning to know What cannot be known, to comprehend the Incomprehensible, to touch and taste the Unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its Source. How