Kristin’s Reviews > Man: The Dwelling Place of God: What It Means to Have Christ Living in You by A. W. Tozer > Status Update

“Two things remain to be said. One, that the lonely man of whom we speak is not a haughty man, nor is he the holier-than-thou, austere saint so bitterly satirized in popular literature. He is likely to feel that he is the least of all men and is sure to blame himself for his very loneliness. He wants to share his feelings with others and to open his heart to some like-minded soul-who will understand him…”

“The pain of loneliness arises from the constitution of our nature. God made us for each other. The desire for human companionship is completely natural and right. The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians…”

“This cheerful denial of loneliness proves only that the speaker has never walked with God without the support and encouragement afforded him by soci-ety. The sense of companionship which he mistakenly attributes to the presence of Christ may and probably does arise from the presence of friendly people.”

“The blessing of God is promised to the peace-maker, but the religious negotiator had better watch his step. The ability to settle quarrels between members of God's household is a heavenly gift and one that should be assiduously cultivated. The discerning soul who can reconcile separated friends by prayer and appeal to the Scriptures is worth his weight in diamonds.”

“Tolerance, charity, understanding, good will, patience and other such words and ideas are lifted from the Bible, misunderstood and applied indiscriminately to every situation. … the burglar caught sneaking into your house with a gun is not really bad; he is just hungry for fellowship and togetherness; . And this is supposed to be the teaching of Jesus, which it most certainly is not.”

“A precise agreement between belief and fact constitutes soundness in doctrine.”

“But something less is among us, nevertheless, and we do well to identify it so that we may repudiate it….quasi-Christians follow a quasi-Christ. They want His help but not His interference. They will flatter Him but never obey Him.”

“Salvation comes…by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole, living, victorious Lord who, as God and man, fought out fight and won it, accepted our debt as His own and paid it, took our sins and died under them and rose again to set us free. This is the true Christ, and nothing less will do.”

“…the Church is not dead, nor is it dying. The Church cannot die.”

“…the picture of the Church on earth as a conquering army is not realistic. Her true situation is more accurately portrayed as a flock of sheep in the midst of wolves, or as a company of despised pilgrims plodding toward home, or as a peculiar nation protected by the Passover blood waiting for the sound of the trumpet, or as a bride looking for the coming of her bridegroom.”