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Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Jon Tyson • The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success
That type of Christianity which happens now to be the vogue knows this Presence only in theory. It fails to stress the Christian’s privilege of present realization. According to its teachings we are in the Presence of God positionally, and nothing is said about the need to experience that Presence actually.
A. W. Tozer • The Pursuit of God
So it is with the true child of God. He does not ask merely whether certain things are commanded or certain things forbidden. He studies to know his Father's will in all things.
R. A. Torrey, Andrew Murray, D. L. Moody, Rosalind Goforth, George Muller, E. M. Bounds, Jeanne Gu... • 7 Classics on PRAYER
Many people who profess Christ lose their footing on this final point. They may well appreciate fellow church members and contribute in some way to their well-being, but they have not been filled by the Lord with a holy love for fellow Christians, and thus they do not serve them.
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
Sometimes it’s the preacher who is “out of season.” If we are in places where we are not called, or if God has willed us to be in a place where others enjoy success while we suffer failures, even while preaching and leading faithfully, it is only because he wants to conform us more to the image of Christ, who was despised and rejected.
Jared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification

Too often I look for my desires to be met in God’s good gifts rather than in God himself. I don’t want to dismiss the wonderful things I have received from his hand, just as David is not minimizing the value of green pastures and quiet waters. Still, there is an infinite qualitative difference between the gifts and the Giver; between the green
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I do not want to leave the impression that the ordinary means of grace have no value. They most assuredly have. Private prayer should be practiced by every Christian. Long periods of Bible meditation will purify our gaze and direct it; church attendance will enlarge our outlook and increase our love for others. Service and work and activity; all
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Servants remember that God owns it all.