Daily Thought: Following Hard after God

Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him; imperfect it may be, but a true work nonetheless, and the secret cause of all desiring and seeking and praying which may follow.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me," said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him," and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand."

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, SoHo Books, p. 5

Daily Thought: The Source of our Woe

"Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and 'things' were allowed to enter.  Within the human heart 'things' have taken over.  Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight among themselves for first place on the throne." ~ A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, p. 11

Daily Thought: What is Religion?

"All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man to the fullest, most intimate communion which the human soul is capable.  Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God." ~ A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, p. 6