God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the need for patience and dedication in the pursuit of spiritual understanding amidst a fast-paced, technology-driven world.
Aiden Wilson Tozer highlights the contrast between the hurried nature of modern life and the more deliberate pace required for spiritual growth and understanding. In a society focused on efficiency and rapid results, he suggests that connecting with God demands time, contemplation, and a departure from the distractions of our machine-driven age.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a sermon about the importance of taking time for spiritual reflection.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, βWhat is God like?β and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.
The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
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