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Title: The Pursuit of God

Author: A. W. Tozer

Release Date: April 23, 2008 [EBook #25141]

Language: English

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The Pursuit of God

"Then shall we know,
if we follow on to know the Lord:
his going forth is prepared as the morning."

HOSEA 6:3

by A. W. Tozer

introduction by
Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer

CHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS, INC. HARRISBURG, PA.

COPYRIGHT MCMXLVIII BY CHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS, INC.

_Printed in United States_

Contents

Introduction 5

Preface 7

I Following Hard after God 11

II The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing 21

III Removing the Veil 33

IV Apprehending God 49

V The Universal Presence 61

VI The Speaking Voice 73

VII The Gaze of the Soul 85

VIII Restoring the Creator-creature Relation 99

IX Meekness and Rest 109

X The Sacrament of Living 117

Introduction

Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting after
God, eager to grasp at least the outskirts of His ways, the abyss of His
love for sinners, and the height of His unapproachable majesty--and it
was written by a busy pastor in Chicago!

Who could imagine David writing the twenty-third Psalm on South Halsted