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

“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.”

“I have seen that most of us would rather be happy than to feel the wounds of other people’s sorrows. I do not believe that it is the will of God that we should seek to be happy, but rather that we should seek to be holy and useful. The holy man will be the useful man and he’s likely to be a happy man too; but if he seeks happiness and forgets holiness and usefulness, he’s a carnal man.”

“Christians have fallen into the habit of accepting the noisiest and most notorious among them as the best and the greatest. They too have learned to equate popularity with excellence, and in open defiance of the Sermon on the Mount they have given their approval not to the meek but to the self-assertive; not to the mourner but to the self-assured; not to the pure in heart who see God but to the publicity hunter…

“The man who believes he was created to enjoy fleshly pleasures will devote himself to pleasure seeking; and if by combination of favorable circumstances he manages to get a lot of fun out of life, his pleasures will all turn to ashes in his mouth at the last. He will find out too late that God made him too noble to be satisfied with those tawdry pleasures he had devoted his life to here under the sun.”

“No man has any right to give himself completely to anyone but Christ nor to anything but prayer. The man who does not know where he is is lost; the man who does not know why he was born is worse lost; the man who cannot find an object worthy of his true devotion is lost utterly; and by this description the human race is lost and it is a part of our lostness that we do not know how lost we are.”

“To receive an answer to prayer as the Bible uses the term and as Christians have understood it historically, two elements must be present: (1) A clear-cut request made to God for a specific favor. (2) A clear-cut granting of that favor by God in answer to the request.”

“While we all pride ourselves that we draw our beliefs from the Holy Scriptures, along those border lines where good men disagree we may unconsciously take sides with our temperament. Cast of mind may easily determine our views when the Scriptures are not clear.”