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“The Bible will never be a living Book to us until we are convinced that God is articulate in His universe. To jump from a dead, impersonal world to a dogmatic Bible is too much for most people. They may admit that they should accept the Bible as the Word of God, and they may try to think of it as such, but they find it impossible to believe that the words there on the page are actually for them. A man may say, “These words are addressed to me,” and yet in his heart not feel and know that they are. He is the victim of a divided psychology. He tries to think of God as mute everywhere else and vocal only in a book. I”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God and Other Classics

“Since believing is looking it can be done any time. No season is superior to another season for this sweetest of all acts. God never made salvation depend upon new moons nor holy days or sabbaths. A man is not nearer to Christ on Easter Sunday than he is, say, on Saturday, August 3, or Monday, October 4. As long as Christ sits on the mediatorial throne every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God and Other Classics

“but his agenda of dealing with sin and its effects and consequences was never about rescuing individual souls from the world but about saving humans so that they could become part of his project of saving the world.”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues

“So we should be careful to avoid “dumbing down” biblical truths into categories of human comprehension or forcing biblical truths into philosophical categories and ideas”
― Daryl Aaron, The 40 Most Influential Christians . . . Who Shaped What We Believe Today