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A.W. Tozer
“Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.”
A W Tozer

A.W. Tozer
“The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.”
A. W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer
“Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.”
A. W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer
“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.”
A.W. Tozer

A.W. Tozer
“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

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