Tässä Tozer'in kirjan The Knowledge of the Holy kirjan ensimmäinen sivu.
Laitoin eri värillä ne kohdat mistä itse pidän ja olen pitänyt 19 vuotiaasta asti. Taisi tulla eri väreillä vahingossa.
Chapter 1
Why We Must Think Rightly About God
O, Lord God Almighty, not the God of the philosophers and the
wise but the God of the prophets and apostles; and better than
all, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may I express
Thee unblamed?
They that know Thee not may call upon Thee as other than
Thou art, and so worship not Thee but a creature of their own
fancy; therefore enlighten our minds that we may know Thee
as Thou art, so that we may perfectly love Thee and worthily
praise Thee.
In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the
most important thing about us.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has
ever risen above its religion, and mans spiritual history will
positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater
than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper
entertains high or low thoughts of God.
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is
always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any
man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he
in his deep heart conceives God to be like. We tend by a secret
law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. This
is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company
of Christians that composes the Church. Always the most
revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her
most significant message is what she says about Himor leaves
unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.
She can never escape the self-disclosure of her witness concerning God.
