The Pursuit of God

Written by A. W. Tozer

Narrated by Mark Christensen

To have found God and still to pursue Him is a paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily satisfied religious person, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux stated this holy paradox in a musical four-line poem that will be instantly understood by every worshipping soul:





We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread,


And long to feast upon Thee still:


We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead


And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.





Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. Let A. W. Tozer’s pursuit of God spur you also into a genuine hunger and thirst to truly know God.





About the Author


Among the more than 40 books that he authored, at least two are regarded as Christian classics: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity of a deeper relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Jan 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781518990786

A. W. Tozer

The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.

Reviews for The Pursuit of God

[Gary D Davis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was challenged, convicted, uplifted, encouraged and blessed with his insight.

[Diane Seamon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Truths about our relationship with God that make me more aware of letting God be in charge and giving my heart and my life to Him to worship Him in all I do. This will never be outdated material.

[Eden Myrrh Toohey-Ogle · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Will be reading and meditating on a lot of that material again over the course of the month, and year! What a gem!

[Javier Castillo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely loved this book. Six stars out of five. God bless

[David Mbombo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is one of the best books i’have read. Every christian should read it.

[Edith Cheong-a-Shack · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book has been life changing for me . It has simplified the complications of living fully for the Lord in a fallen world. the audiobook format allowed me to listen to it twice. I look forward now to reading Tozer’s other classics

[Caleb-Lamar Rodriguez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book will definitely challenge you to seek The Most High for deeper!

[Thomas Lorenz (Fit For Faith Ministries) · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This book is hard to review.

PROS

- Good theology.

- Important exhortations, although it is not clear at all to which church he is speaking (to Europe, to America, or even including Asia?).

- He correctly criticizes the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the book, but throughout the whole book he over and over endorses specifically Roman Catholics. This is hypocrisy at its finest. We could argue that he often endorsed Catholics who lived before the Reformation, but even those had not been ordinary Catholics of a still 'unified' church, but those with very particular connections to the Pope.

CONS

- He positively quoted the Chinese sage Laotze (Laozi, a supreme deity in Daoism, wrote the foundational text of Taoism and is generally considered its founder).

- Repeated endorsement of Augustine, one of the greatest antichrists in history ( responsible for -most- of Catholicism's doctrines and practices, doctor of the RCC, patriarch Calvinism, Apocrypha, doctrine of persecution, amillennialism, infant baptism, tithing, marital sex is sinful, ransom-theory, Jesus had no brothers et al).

- Repeated endorsement of Francis of Assisi (Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans).

- Endorsement of saint Bernard of Clairvaux (abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, a Catholic order).

- Endorsement of Nicholas of Cusa (appointed cardinal for his merits by Pope Nicholas V in 1448, in 1459, he became vicar general in the Papal States).

- Endorsement of Frederick William Faber (a noted English hymn writer and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845, ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1847).

- He promoted the book 'The Cloud of Unknowing', which is Mysticism. He also made several allusions to Catholic Mysticism throughout the book.