God's Pursuit of Man by Tozer

Really enjoying reading God's Pursuit of Man at the moment. Hope you enjoy these excerpts as much as I am doing. :)

(About the Holy Spirit,) "Let us begin to think of Him as One to be worshipped and obeyed. Let us throw open every door and invite Him in. Let us surrender to Him every room in the temple of our hearts and insist that He enter and occupy as Lord and Master within His own dwelling. And let us remember that He is drawn to the sweet name of Jesus as bees are drawn to the fragrance of clover. Where Christ is honoured the Spirit is sure to feel welcome; where Christ is glorified He will move about freely, pleased and at home." Page 72.

"True spiritual knowledge is the result of a visitation of heavenly wisdom, a kind of baptism of the Spirit of Truth which comes to God-fearing men. This wisdom is always associated with righteousness and humility and is never found apart from godliness and the holiness of life." Page 84.


"There is a knowing of Truth as it is in Jesus, as it is in a Christlike nature, as it is in that sweet, mild, humble and loving Spirit of Jesus, which spreads itself like a morning sun upon the souls of good men, full of life and light. It profits little to know Christ Himself after the flesh; but He gives His Spirit to good men that search the deep things of God. There is an inward beauty, life and loveliness in divine Truth, which can be known only when it is digested into life and practice.
There is an inward sweetness and deliciousness in divine Truth, which no sensual mind can taste or relish: this is that "natural" man that savours not the things of God... Divinity is not so much perceived by a subtle wit as by a purified sense."
(excerpt from The True Way of Attaining Divine Knowledge by John Smith quoted by Tozer.)

Tozer again

I read these two quotes yesterday and found them very interesting, taken from God's Pursuit of man.

"Not to us has it been given to have life in ourselves. For life we are wholly and continually dependent upon God, the Source and Fountain of Life. Only by full dependence upon Him are the hidden potentialities of our natures realized." (page 47)

"The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. The cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all." (page 52)