“The truth is that while God dwells in His world He is separated from it by a gulf forever impassable. However closely He may be identified with the work of His hands they are and must eternally be other than He, and He is and must be antecedent to and independent of them. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is imminent within them.” (p62)
“God is here.” (p62)
“The Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. He is manifest only when and as we are aware of His Presence.” (p64)
“Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us. The approach of God to the soul or of the soul to God is not to be thought of in spatial terms at all. There is no idea of physical distance involved in the concept. It is not a matter of miles but of experience.” (p65)
“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, ‘O Lord, Thou knowest.’ Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God’s omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.” (p68)
“The idea of cultivation and exercise, so dear to the saints of old, has no place in our total religious picture. It is too slow, too common. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us.” (p69)
-AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
Teaching Adventures 