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Lo Mejor de A.W. Tozer, Libro dos
A.W. Tozer escribi� con la pasi�n de un hombre sediento de Dios. No tem�a exponer las flaquezas del hombre, ni vacilaba en revelar lo que Dios puede hacer por quienes lo buscan. Esta colecci�n de 44 cap�tulos cubre los principales temas de los escritos de A. W. Tozer, captando el mensaje que tan apasionadamente ense�� y vivi� rendirse a Cristo, conocer a Dios personalmente y crecer para llegar a ser como �l. Quiz�s esto explica su amplia difusi�n y su influencia duradera.
Los extractos de este volumen provienen de cl�sicos como:
El Conocimiento de lo sagrado
La b�squeda de Dios
La b�squeda del hombre por Dios
C�mo estar lleno del Esp�ritu Santo
Hablo de nuevo con el diablo
�Qui�n puso a Jes�s en la cruz?
�Adem�s de muchos m�s!
Tambi�n est� disponible Lo mejor de A.W. Tozer, Libro uno, que incluye 52 cap�tulos m�s.
A.W. Tozer wrote with the passion of a man thirsty for God. He was not afraid to expose man's frailties, nor was he hesitant to reveal what God can do for those who seek Him. This collection of 44 chapters covers major themes of A. W. Tozer's writings, capturing the message he so passionately taught and lived: Surrender to Christ, get to know God personally, and grow to become like Him. Perhaps this explains their wide circulation and lasting influence.
Excerpts from this volume come from classics like:
The Knowledge of the Holy
The Pursuit of God
God's Pursuit of Man
How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
I Talk Back to the Devil
Who Put Jesus on the Cross?
Plus many more!
Also available is The Best of A.W. Tozer Book One, which includes 52 more chapters.
Los extractos de este volumen provienen de cl�sicos como:
El Conocimiento de lo sagrado
La b�squeda de Dios
La b�squeda del hombre por Dios
C�mo estar lleno del Esp�ritu Santo
Hablo de nuevo con el diablo
�Qui�n puso a Jes�s en la cruz?
�Adem�s de muchos m�s!
Tambi�n est� disponible Lo mejor de A.W. Tozer, Libro uno, que incluye 52 cap�tulos m�s.
A.W. Tozer wrote with the passion of a man thirsty for God. He was not afraid to expose man's frailties, nor was he hesitant to reveal what God can do for those who seek Him. This collection of 44 chapters covers major themes of A. W. Tozer's writings, capturing the message he so passionately taught and lived: Surrender to Christ, get to know God personally, and grow to become like Him. Perhaps this explains their wide circulation and lasting influence.
Excerpts from this volume come from classics like:
The Knowledge of the Holy
The Pursuit of God
God's Pursuit of Man
How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
I Talk Back to the Devil
Who Put Jesus on the Cross?
Plus many more!
Also available is The Best of A.W. Tozer Book One, which includes 52 more chapters.
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First published September 1, 1978
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About the author
A.W. Tozer
660 books2,090 followersAiden Wilson Tozer was an American evangelical pastor, speaker, writer, and editor. After coming to Christ at the age of seventeen, Tozer found his way into the Christian & Missionary Alliance denomination where he served for over forty years. In 1950, he was appointed by the denomination's General Council to be the editor of "The Alliance Witness" (now "Alliance Life").
Born into poverty in western Pennsylvania in 1897, Tozer died in May 1963 a self-educated man who had taught himself what he missed in high school and college due to his home situation. Though he wrote many books, two of them, "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy" are widely considered to be classics.
A.W. Tozer and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, had seven children, six boys and one girl.
Born into poverty in western Pennsylvania in 1897, Tozer died in May 1963 a self-educated man who had taught himself what he missed in high school and college due to his home situation. Though he wrote many books, two of them, "The Pursuit of God" and "The Knowledge of the Holy" are widely considered to be classics.
A.W. Tozer and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, had seven children, six boys and one girl.
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March 11, 2022
It is a heavy read, like every chapter is very intellectual and deep. So many encouraging and challenging thoughts and ideas, although I am not sure how much of it I’ll retain.
Definitely have a lot of respect for old Mr Tozer and it’s a good way to read a lot of his stuff without having to read all his books lol
Definitely have a lot of respect for old Mr Tozer and it’s a good way to read a lot of his stuff without having to read all his books lol
July 18, 2009
Tozer is the bomb, to say the least.
Poignant Quotes:
Tribulation has always sobered God’s people and encouraged them to look for and yearn after the return of their Lord.
Which is to say that our attitude toward things is likely in the long run to be more important than the things themselves.
To accept Christ is to form an attachment to the Person of our Lord Jesus altogether unique in human experience. The attachment is intellectual, volitional and emotional. The believer is intellectually convinced that Jesus is both Lord and Christ; he has set his will to follow Him at any cost and soon his heart is enjoying the exquisite sweetness of His fellowship.
We being what we are and all things else being what they are, the most important and profitable study any of us can engage in is without question the study of theology.
Whatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
We learn with difficulty, forget easily and suffer many distractions.
Self-knowledge is so critically important to us in our pursuit of God and His righteousness that we lie under heavy obligation to do immediately whatever is necessary to remove the disguise and permit our real selves to be known.
We may be known by the following:
What we want most
Ask your heart, what would you rather have than anything else in the world?
What we think about most
The true test is what we think about voluntarily
How we use our money
What we do with our leisure time
The company we enjoy
Where we go when we are free to go where we will is a near-infallible index of character
Whom and what we admire
What we laugh at
Marks of the Spiritual Man
First is the desire to be holy rather than happy
A man may be considered spiritual when he wants to see the honor of God advanced through his life even is it means that he himself must suffer temporary dishonor or lose.
The spiritual man wants to carry his cross
A Christian is spiritual when he sees everything from God’s viewpoint
Another desire of the spiritual man is to die right rather than to live wrong
The desire to see others advance at his expense is another mark of the spiritual man
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments
Beware the File-Card Mentality
The essence of true religion is spontaneity, the sovereign movings of the Holy Spirit upon and in the free spirit of redeemed men
Every Spirit-led saint knows that there are times when he is held by an inward pressure to one chapter, or even one verse, for days at a time while he wrestles with God till some truth does its work with him
He is in the hand of the free Spirit, and reality is appearing before him to break and humble and lift and liberate and cheer.
The slave to the file card soon finds that his prayers lose their freedom and become less spontaneous, less effective
Inevitably the calendar crowds out the Spirit and the face of the clock hides the face of God. Prayer ceases to be the free breath of a ransomed soul and becomes a duty to be fulfilled
And even if under such circumstances he succeeds in making his prayer amount to something, still he is suffering tragic losses and binding upon his soul a yoke from which CHRIST DIED TO SET HIM FREE!
It is a deadly thing and works to quench the spontaneous operation of the Spirit
The glory of the gospel is its freedom
The Pharisees, who were slaves, hated Christ because He was free
Many who know better are surrendering their liberties with only a token struggle
God is easy to Live with
Nothings twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God
Out notion of God determines the quality of our religion
The Christian life is thought to be a glum, unrelieved cross-carrying under the eye of a stern Father who expects much and excuses nothing
IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO OUR SPIRITUAL WELFARE THAT WE HOLD IN OUR MINDS ALWAYS A RIGHT CONCEPTION OF GOD
The fellowship of God is delightful beyond all telling
He is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy
He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will.
He loves us for ourselves and values our love more than galaxies of new created worlds
Many Christians cannot get free from their perverted notions of God, and these notions poison their hearts and destroy their inward freedom! (This is the legalism you struggle with Steven)
He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is
We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.
Success itself becomes the cause of later failure.
Be concerned not with what you have accomplished but over what you might have accomplished if you had followed the Lord completely. It is better to say (and feel), “We are unprofitable slaves; we have done that which was our duty to do.”
When reproved, pay no attention to the source. Do not ask whether it is a friend or any enemy that reproves you. An enemy is often of greater value to you than a friend because he is not influenced by sympathy.
Keep your heart open to the correction of the Lord and be ready to receive His chastisement regardless of who holds the whip. The great saints all learned to take a licking gracefully – and that may be one reason why the were great saints.
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
And the ominous thing is that its power is almost exclusively evil, rotting the inner life, crowding out the long eternal thoughts which would fill the souls of men if they were but worthy to entertain them.
For centuries the Church stood solidly against every form of worldly entertainment, recognizing it for what is was – a device for wasting time, a refuge from the disturbing voice of conscience, a scheme to divert attention from moral accountability.
Now if there is any reality within the whole sphere of human experience that is by its very nature worthy to challenge the mind, charm the heart and bring the total life to a burning focus, it is the reality that revolves around the Person of Christ. If He is who and what the
Christian message declares Him to be, then the thought of Him should be the most exciting, the most stimulating, to enter the human mind.
Charles G. Finney believed that Bible teaching without moral application could be worse than no teaching at all and could result in positive injury to the hearers.
No man is better for knowing that God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth. The devil knows that, and so did Ahab and Judas Iscariot. No man is better for knowing that God so loved the world of men that he gave His only begotten Son to die for their redemption. In hell there are millions who know that. Theological truth is useless until it is obeyed.
Bible exposition without moral application raises no opposition.
On the other hand, the man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets.
The church needs them badly.
Few things are as useful in the Christian life as a gentle sense of humor and few things are as deadly as a sense of humor out of control.
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
One way the civilized world destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts.
I believe that we find the bible difficult because we try to read it as we read any other book, and it is not the same as any other book.
Faith is a gift of God to a penitent soul and has nothing whatsoever to do with the senses of the data they afford. Faith is a miracle; it is the ability God gives to truth His Son, and anything that does not result in action in accord with the will of God is not faith but something else short of it.
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there not true faith present.
The love the Bible enjoins is not the love of feeling; it is the love of willing, the willed tendency of the heart.
It should be a cheering thought that before God every man is what he wills to be.
Repentance is primarily a change of moral purpose, a sudden and often violent reversal of the soul’s direction.
God must be loved for Himself
God being who He is must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else
The teaching of the Bible is that God is Himself the end for which man was created for
Being who He is, God is to be loved for His own sake. He is the reason for our loving Him, just as He is the reason for His loving us and for every other act He has performed, is performing and will perform world without end
God’s primary reason for everything is His own good pleasure.
One has but to look at a healthy child play or listen to the songs of a bird at sundown and he will know that God meant His universe to be a joyful one
All that God does for me is part of the overflow of His love for me
God wills that we should love Him for Himself alone, with no hidden reason, trusting Him to be to us all our natures require (Matthew 6:33)
Any religious experience that fails to deepen our love for our fellow Christians may safely be written off as spurious.
It hardly need be said that most of us are not selective enough in our reading.
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education.
The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and ask no portion or share himself. He delights not to be honored but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful “adjustment” to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
[Worship:] is an attitude, a state of mind, a sustained act, subject to degrees of perfection and intensity.
Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God; that is why I do not believe in these half-converted cowboys who call God the Man Upstairs.
And if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is. We’re too familiar with God.
I believe many Christians are tempted to downgrade themselves too much. I am not arguing against true humility and my word to you is this: Think as little of yourself as you want to, but always remember that our Lord Jesus Christ thought very highly of you – enough to give Himself for you in death and sacrifice.
God works as long as His people live daringly: He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
The best and swiftest work would be always be done by Christian nationals operating among their own people
Application:
Enjoy Him and desire Him every day
Poignant Quotes:
Tribulation has always sobered God’s people and encouraged them to look for and yearn after the return of their Lord.
Which is to say that our attitude toward things is likely in the long run to be more important than the things themselves.
To accept Christ is to form an attachment to the Person of our Lord Jesus altogether unique in human experience. The attachment is intellectual, volitional and emotional. The believer is intellectually convinced that Jesus is both Lord and Christ; he has set his will to follow Him at any cost and soon his heart is enjoying the exquisite sweetness of His fellowship.
We being what we are and all things else being what they are, the most important and profitable study any of us can engage in is without question the study of theology.
Whatever keeps me from the Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
We learn with difficulty, forget easily and suffer many distractions.
Self-knowledge is so critically important to us in our pursuit of God and His righteousness that we lie under heavy obligation to do immediately whatever is necessary to remove the disguise and permit our real selves to be known.
We may be known by the following:
What we want most
Ask your heart, what would you rather have than anything else in the world?
What we think about most
The true test is what we think about voluntarily
How we use our money
What we do with our leisure time
The company we enjoy
Where we go when we are free to go where we will is a near-infallible index of character
Whom and what we admire
What we laugh at
Marks of the Spiritual Man
First is the desire to be holy rather than happy
A man may be considered spiritual when he wants to see the honor of God advanced through his life even is it means that he himself must suffer temporary dishonor or lose.
The spiritual man wants to carry his cross
A Christian is spiritual when he sees everything from God’s viewpoint
Another desire of the spiritual man is to die right rather than to live wrong
The desire to see others advance at his expense is another mark of the spiritual man
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments
Beware the File-Card Mentality
The essence of true religion is spontaneity, the sovereign movings of the Holy Spirit upon and in the free spirit of redeemed men
Every Spirit-led saint knows that there are times when he is held by an inward pressure to one chapter, or even one verse, for days at a time while he wrestles with God till some truth does its work with him
He is in the hand of the free Spirit, and reality is appearing before him to break and humble and lift and liberate and cheer.
The slave to the file card soon finds that his prayers lose their freedom and become less spontaneous, less effective
Inevitably the calendar crowds out the Spirit and the face of the clock hides the face of God. Prayer ceases to be the free breath of a ransomed soul and becomes a duty to be fulfilled
And even if under such circumstances he succeeds in making his prayer amount to something, still he is suffering tragic losses and binding upon his soul a yoke from which CHRIST DIED TO SET HIM FREE!
It is a deadly thing and works to quench the spontaneous operation of the Spirit
The glory of the gospel is its freedom
The Pharisees, who were slaves, hated Christ because He was free
Many who know better are surrendering their liberties with only a token struggle
God is easy to Live with
Nothings twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God
Out notion of God determines the quality of our religion
The Christian life is thought to be a glum, unrelieved cross-carrying under the eye of a stern Father who expects much and excuses nothing
IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO OUR SPIRITUAL WELFARE THAT WE HOLD IN OUR MINDS ALWAYS A RIGHT CONCEPTION OF GOD
The fellowship of God is delightful beyond all telling
He is not hard to please, though He may be hard to satisfy
He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him, and just as quick to overlook imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will.
He loves us for ourselves and values our love more than galaxies of new created worlds
Many Christians cannot get free from their perverted notions of God, and these notions poison their hearts and destroy their inward freedom! (This is the legalism you struggle with Steven)
He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is
We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections, and believing that He understands everything and loves us still.
Success itself becomes the cause of later failure.
Be concerned not with what you have accomplished but over what you might have accomplished if you had followed the Lord completely. It is better to say (and feel), “We are unprofitable slaves; we have done that which was our duty to do.”
When reproved, pay no attention to the source. Do not ask whether it is a friend or any enemy that reproves you. An enemy is often of greater value to you than a friend because he is not influenced by sympathy.
Keep your heart open to the correction of the Lord and be ready to receive His chastisement regardless of who holds the whip. The great saints all learned to take a licking gracefully – and that may be one reason why the were great saints.
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
And the ominous thing is that its power is almost exclusively evil, rotting the inner life, crowding out the long eternal thoughts which would fill the souls of men if they were but worthy to entertain them.
For centuries the Church stood solidly against every form of worldly entertainment, recognizing it for what is was – a device for wasting time, a refuge from the disturbing voice of conscience, a scheme to divert attention from moral accountability.
Now if there is any reality within the whole sphere of human experience that is by its very nature worthy to challenge the mind, charm the heart and bring the total life to a burning focus, it is the reality that revolves around the Person of Christ. If He is who and what the
Christian message declares Him to be, then the thought of Him should be the most exciting, the most stimulating, to enter the human mind.
Charles G. Finney believed that Bible teaching without moral application could be worse than no teaching at all and could result in positive injury to the hearers.
No man is better for knowing that God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth. The devil knows that, and so did Ahab and Judas Iscariot. No man is better for knowing that God so loved the world of men that he gave His only begotten Son to die for their redemption. In hell there are millions who know that. Theological truth is useless until it is obeyed.
Bible exposition without moral application raises no opposition.
On the other hand, the man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets.
The church needs them badly.
Few things are as useful in the Christian life as a gentle sense of humor and few things are as deadly as a sense of humor out of control.
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
One way the civilized world destroys men is by preventing them from thinking their own thoughts.
I believe that we find the bible difficult because we try to read it as we read any other book, and it is not the same as any other book.
Faith is a gift of God to a penitent soul and has nothing whatsoever to do with the senses of the data they afford. Faith is a miracle; it is the ability God gives to truth His Son, and anything that does not result in action in accord with the will of God is not faith but something else short of it.
The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there not true faith present.
The love the Bible enjoins is not the love of feeling; it is the love of willing, the willed tendency of the heart.
It should be a cheering thought that before God every man is what he wills to be.
Repentance is primarily a change of moral purpose, a sudden and often violent reversal of the soul’s direction.
God must be loved for Himself
God being who He is must always be sought for Himself, never as a means toward something else
The teaching of the Bible is that God is Himself the end for which man was created for
Being who He is, God is to be loved for His own sake. He is the reason for our loving Him, just as He is the reason for His loving us and for every other act He has performed, is performing and will perform world without end
God’s primary reason for everything is His own good pleasure.
One has but to look at a healthy child play or listen to the songs of a bird at sundown and he will know that God meant His universe to be a joyful one
All that God does for me is part of the overflow of His love for me
God wills that we should love Him for Himself alone, with no hidden reason, trusting Him to be to us all our natures require (Matthew 6:33)
Any religious experience that fails to deepen our love for our fellow Christians may safely be written off as spurious.
It hardly need be said that most of us are not selective enough in our reading.
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
Perception of ideas rather than the storing of them should be the aim of education.
The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and ask no portion or share himself. He delights not to be honored but to see his Saviour glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful “adjustment” to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.
[Worship:] is an attitude, a state of mind, a sustained act, subject to degrees of perfection and intensity.
Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God; that is why I do not believe in these half-converted cowboys who call God the Man Upstairs.
And if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is. We’re too familiar with God.
I believe many Christians are tempted to downgrade themselves too much. I am not arguing against true humility and my word to you is this: Think as little of yourself as you want to, but always remember that our Lord Jesus Christ thought very highly of you – enough to give Himself for you in death and sacrifice.
God works as long as His people live daringly: He ceases when they no longer need His aid.
The best and swiftest work would be always be done by Christian nationals operating among their own people
Application:
Enjoy Him and desire Him every day
March 4, 2013
This book is a diamond in the rough, completely overlooked by many. I'm just so thankful that a good friend of mine recommended it to me. She more insisted that I read it instead of recommending it, but I can see why. It's a very deep book. You can read a matter of three pages and need a day or two to think about it. It truly makes you consider Christianity and its expectations of you. I'm a better person for it. I don't know if I could recommend this book more. It's a godsend. So beyond thankful for having read this gem.
April 25, 2020
A.W. Tozer spoke truth - spoke it plainly and winsomely. This second volume of selections from his writings continues to teach and challenge Christians to hold fast to the eternal truths that are taught in the Scriptures.
April 8, 2008
Buy Tozer to read and draw from the insights that few others could offer last century. This is a great place to begin reading Tozer's work if you are new to it.
February 16, 2010
Tozer is near the top of my faves list for Christian authors. This book is a must have for Tozer fans. He is so succinct, so clear, so forthright, so...right. Love him. Love this book.
April 26, 2014
This is a great book! Look forward to reading it again.
May 25, 2020
For those that are looking to sample A.W. Tozer's writings, I highly recommend this book.
September 11, 2021
If you’re going to read Tozer, you ought to be prepared for frustration: with the state of modern evangelicalism, with the world’s lostness, with yourself for reading instead of advancing the kingdom. But you’ll also find in his work new stirrings of loveliness and wonder. I always feel a bit of exhaustion after reading Tozer; he fans the heart’s embers to a roar. An excellent collection, and one I wish was still in print.
January 19, 2019
Outstanding
January 4, 2020
Books don't get better than this!
January 23, 2016
I would definitely consider myself a fan of A.W. Tozer. I've read dozens of his books at this point. But there are still so many books I haven't read yet. The Best of A.W. Tozer is a compilation of his 'best' work by Warren Wiersbe. It begins with an introduction by Wiersbe that shares with readers WHY they should read Tozer, and, what makes him special. He says it well, I must admit.
The book is composed of excerpts, chapters, from Tozer's books. It includes three chapters from The Pursuit of God. It includes seven chapters from Born After Midnight. It includes nine chapters from God Tells the Man Who Cares. It includes six chapters from That Incredible Christian. It includes six chapters from The Root of the Righteous. It includes seven chapters from Of God and Men. It includes nine chapters from Man: The Dwelling Place of God. It includes one chapter from How To Be Filled With the Holy Spirit. It includes one chapter from Worship: The Missing Jewel of the Evangelical Church. It includes one chapter from Who Put Jesus on the Cross. It includes one chapter from Paths to Power. It includes one chapter from Let My People Go.
If you're looking for a broad introduction to Tozer, two resources come to mind. One is the Pursuit of God, NIV Tozer Bible. This Bible features TONS of Tozer quotes. Some long. Some short. The other is this book which features entire chapters from a handful of Tozer books. The chapters were chosen with a mind to give variety: cover a WIDE range of topics on the Christian life.
If you're looking for a narrower introduction to Tozer, the best resources would probably be either THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY or THE ROOT OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Those two books are probably my favorites. I've read each book multiple times.
From the introduction:
I would quote from the book. But. I think I would end up WANTING to quote something from each and every chapter. That's not realistic. Just know that this book is GOOD.
The book is composed of excerpts, chapters, from Tozer's books. It includes three chapters from The Pursuit of God. It includes seven chapters from Born After Midnight. It includes nine chapters from God Tells the Man Who Cares. It includes six chapters from That Incredible Christian. It includes six chapters from The Root of the Righteous. It includes seven chapters from Of God and Men. It includes nine chapters from Man: The Dwelling Place of God. It includes one chapter from How To Be Filled With the Holy Spirit. It includes one chapter from Worship: The Missing Jewel of the Evangelical Church. It includes one chapter from Who Put Jesus on the Cross. It includes one chapter from Paths to Power. It includes one chapter from Let My People Go.
If you're looking for a broad introduction to Tozer, two resources come to mind. One is the Pursuit of God, NIV Tozer Bible. This Bible features TONS of Tozer quotes. Some long. Some short. The other is this book which features entire chapters from a handful of Tozer books. The chapters were chosen with a mind to give variety: cover a WIDE range of topics on the Christian life.
If you're looking for a narrower introduction to Tozer, the best resources would probably be either THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY or THE ROOT OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Those two books are probably my favorites. I've read each book multiple times.
From the introduction:
He was not afraid to tell us what was wrong. Nor was he hesitant to tell us how God could make it right. ~ Warren Wiersbe speaking of A.W. Tozer
He begs us to please God and forget the crowd. He implores us to worship God that we might become more like Him. How desperately we need that message today! ~ Warren Wiersbe
He so excites you about truth that you forget Tozer and reach for your Bible. ~ Warren Wiersbe
I would quote from the book. But. I think I would end up WANTING to quote something from each and every chapter. That's not realistic. Just know that this book is GOOD.
November 12, 2009
Good introduction to Tozer.
November 9, 2010
A collection of good thoughts on a variety of important subjects.
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October 25, 2013
I read this book as a daily devotional and was struck by the down to earth way Tozer has of preaching the Word of God.
September 2, 2014
Must read
September 14, 2016
Tozer is a must read for any serious student of the bible. His insight and thoughtfulness are unmatched.
November 24, 2020
Good book on Tozer
Tozer has been one of my favorite authors for about 30 years! His writing is simplistic yet deep. I'm going to keep on reading Tozer!
Tozer has been one of my favorite authors for about 30 years! His writing is simplistic yet deep. I'm going to keep on reading Tozer!
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