Showing posts with label A W Tozer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A W Tozer. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 September 2007

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"Worship becomes a completely personal love experience between God and the worshipper".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p69).

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"Real worship is a feeling about the Lord our God. It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p65).

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"I have had people tell me very dogmatically that they will never allow "feeling" that they will never allow "feeling" to have any part in their spiritual life and experience. I reply "too bad for you!" - I say that because I have voiced a very real definition of what I believe true worship is to be: Worship is to feel in the heart!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p64).

A W Tozer on the Church and Worship

"That is why there is a Church. The Christian church exists to worship God first of all. Everything else must come second or third or fourth or fifth".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p45).

A W Tozer on the Holy Spirit and Worship

"Without an infusion of the Holy Spirit there can be no true worship".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p38).

A W Tozer on the Holy Spirit and Worship

"If the Holy Spirit should come upon us as in earlier times, visiting church congregations with the sweet but fiery breath of Pentecost, we would be greater Christians and holier souls. Beyond that we would also be greater poets and greater lovers of God and His universe".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p37).

A W Tozer on the Presence of God

"In my own being I could not exist very long as a Christian without this inner conciousness of the Presence and nearness of God".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p27).

A W Tozer on the Love of God

"This is the best of good news: God loves us for ourselves".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p26).

A W Tozer on Worship and Communion with God

"The God who desires our fellowship and communion is not hard to please although He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He has Himself supplied. He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him and just as quick to overlook our imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on Worship versus Pharisee

"Unbeknown to the understanding of a Pharisee, God communes with His redeemed ones in an easy unhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on Worship and Pleasure in God

"The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasures".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on the School of the Spirit

"We will have much to learn in the school of the Spirit".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p23).

A W Tozer on Worship

"I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the Church they will instantly sense that they come among holy people, God's people. They can testify; "Of a truth God is in this place".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p20).

A W Tozer on Worship and Revival

"We should say too that whenever the church has come out of her lethargy rising from her sleep and into the tides of revival and spiritual renewal, always the worshippers were behind it".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p19).

A W Tozer on Worship and Passion

"Listen to me! Practically every great deed done in the church of Christ all the way back to the apostle Paul was done by people blazing with the radiant worship of their God".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p19).

A W Tozer on Personal Worship

"I would not even attempt to tell you how many hymn books are piled up in my study. I cannot sing a note, but that is nobody's business. God thinks I am an opera star!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p18).

A W Tozer on Worship and Prayer

"We should confess that in many "good" churches we let the women do the praying and let the men do the voting".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p18).

A W Tozer on Worship and Noise!

"The worshipping saints of God in the Body of Christ have often been a little noisy".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p16).

A W Tozer on on Worship and Noise!

"This may be hard for some to admit but when we are truly worshipping and adoring the God of all grace and of all love and of all mercy and of all truth, we may not be quiet enough to please everyone!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p15).

A W Tozer on Worship and the Holy Spirit

"When the Holy Spirit comes among us with His anointing, we become a worshipping people".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p15).