The Pursuit of God by Aiden W. Tozer Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Pursuit of God
Book Review: The Pursuit of God
Summary: 5 Stars
I recognized the name A. W. Tozer, because he is so often quoted by Christian writers. The pursuit of God is a devotional book, and you know, all devotional writers say the same things. I'll let you be the judge. Here are some quotes from The Pursuit of God:
"Sins are not something we do, they are something we are.
"Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil, we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is almost poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience that veil is made of living spiritual tissue...and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. It is never fun to die. Yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free. Let us beware of tinkering with our inner life in hope ourselves to rend the veil. God must do everything for us.
"Ten million intelligences standing at as many points in space...can each say with equal truth, God is here. No point is nearer to God than any other point.
Jacob, 'in the waste howling wilderness'...cried out in wonder.'Surely God is in this place and I knew it not.'"
"God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and divine sovereignty. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
"In the beginning He spoke to nothing, and it became something.
"Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. While we are looking to God we do not see ourselves~ blessed riddance."
Book Review: The Pursuit of God
Summary: 5 Stars
A very detailed book of God. Makes one think deeply about God and all his wonderful ways.Book Review: The Pursuit of God.
Summary: 5 Stars
Tozer has been described as a twentieth century prophet, and fittingly so. 'The Pursuit of God' is a challenging rebuttal to comfortable, pompously pious evangelicalism, perhaps needed more today than when it was first published. It is a book that deserves the attention of every generation of Christian. Unlike so much of the culturally obsessed pop-religionism packaged and peddled today, Tozer's theology and exegesis are very sound:" . . .the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a distance as wide as the sea. We are overrun today with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God."
Tozer on the rejection of self-focus: "Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. . . Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. . . while we are looking at God we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance."
Book Review: The Shekinah Glory of God
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been intimidated to review this book for a long time. Why? This book changed my life. I grew up in a conservative Christian church, my father was a pastor, and I was studying for the ministry when I purchased this book as a gift for a good friend. I didn't want to give him a gift that would lead him astray, so I decided to read the first chapter.
What I found was nothing like what I had known. This was no dry, moldy, "scholarly" book--this was alive. The blessed truths that had been buried in my heart and mind beneath the drudgery of modern scholarship's debates over dating, authorship and sources came pouring forth in what I can only describe as "rivers of living water" (John 7:38). Through the Spirit-led power and insight of Tozer's writing I was awakened to the reality of the Almighty God and the nearness of His blessed Holy Spirit in an amazing way. The prayer he offers at the end of the first chapter (in which he borrows Moses' prayer from Exodus 33) left me in stunned awe before my Maker.
This book (as its author was) is annointed with the presence and power God. I would most highly recommend this book to any person--both those who thirst for more of God and those who know nothing of this deep soul-hunger. Tozer speaks with an authority and passion characteristic of one who has been in the very presence of God. Let the Spirit speak to you through this great saint as you embark upon Man's most noble effort--the Pursuit of God.
Book Review: The Shortest Great Book I've ever read....
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't have picked a better book by Tozer to read (this being the first book I've read by him) than THE PURSUIT OF GOD. This chilling, touching and penetrating page-turner will have you underlining until your pen runs out. So many profound insights, I had to check the date to believe that it was really written almost 50 years ago. If only the church has listened to Tozer more carefully, then we (as the Church) would be an entirely different place.
I guarantee you, this book will not let you down. If you like Brennan Manning, C.S. Lewis and Ken Gire...then you will love Tozer's fascinating THE PURSUIT OF GOD! I read it in one night it was so good. Read it. Breathe it. Live it. Amen. :)