Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
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Thousands each year find their desire for salvation and holiness becoming too acute to bear, and turn to the One who was born in a manger to die on a cross. Then the fleeting beauty that is Christmas enters their hearts to dwell there forever. For who is it that imparts such beauty to the Christmas story? It is none other than Jesus, the Altogether Lovely.
— A. W. Tozer Finding Christ in Christmas: An Advent Devotional from the Writings of A. W. Tozer
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When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
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The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
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We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.
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We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.
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