The Mustard Seed

AW Tozer on the Return of Christ

'It should be noted that there is a vast difference between the doctrine of Christ's coming and the hope of his coming. The first we may hold without feeling a trace of the second. Indeed there are multitudes of Christians today who hold the doctrine of the second coming. What I have talked about here is that overwhelming sense of anticipation that lifts the life on to a new plane and fills the heart with rapturous optimism. This is what we today lack.'

AW Tozer on the Bible #2

'Sermons are good, but they are not to be compared with the Bible as soul food. Songs and hymns are excellent, but let us not become songbook Christians. Men wrote the songs but God wrote the Bible. A successful Christian must be a Bible Christian.'

AW Tozer on the Bible

'Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatsoever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and centre of their hearts.'

The Pursuit of God

Tozer on Grace

"Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving."

Tozer and the Pursuit of God

"The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately, and forever."