“ The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. ”
A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (1948). copy citation
| Author | A. W. Tozer |
|---|---|
| Source | The Pursuit of God |
| Topic | God knowledge church |
| Date | 1948 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25141/25141-h/25141-h.htm |
Context
“Behind the veil is God, that God after Whom the world, with strange inconsistency, has felt, "if haply they might find Him." He has discovered Himself to some extent in nature, but more perfectly in the Incarnation; now He waits to show Himself in ravishing fulness to the humble of soul and the pure in heart.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience,[Pg 39] to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged.” source
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the Presence in spiritual experience,[Pg 39] to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged.” source
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