Annotated), The Pursuit of God (Updated

Brilliant insights into the heart of Christ and his will for us as his children. Tozer eloquently teaches the necessity of seeking after God and not relying on tradition but rather an intimate personal relationship with the King of Heaven.

Brilliant book. Needs to be read several times and really take your time to study it and meditate on it. So rich and full of insight. I would recommend it to all Chirstians wh owant to get closer to the Lord

Enlightening, Challenging, Convicting yet Encouraging are just a few words to describe this book. No need for eloquence because Tozer's rawness and obvious intimacy with the Living God is so powerful and refreshing and will surely open doors to freedom in your spiritual thinking. A must read for all those who desire more and more of God. In fact I'm going to read it all over again as it is saturated with so much truth and goodness.

Enlightening, Challenging, Convicting yet Encouraging are just a few words to describe this book. No need for eloquence because Tozer's rawness and obvious intimacy with the Living God is so powerful and refreshing and will surely open doors to freedom in your spiritual thinking. A must read for all those who desire more and more of God. In fact I'm going to read it all over again as it is saturated with so much truth and goodness.

This book renew faith and enforce spiritual foundation for believers . In the world we live in ,secularism has taken control and Christians no more think like worshippers but as philosophers . I highly recommend this book because of its value contains . While reading the book my soul fell in love again with spiritual things .

I gave this book a five star rating because it is a solid and practical book. It helps the Christian to live his life pursuing God and what God wants from us. This book is for any Christian wanting to draw closer to God.

I have to say that this is one of my absolute favorite books that I have ever read. When I received this book I thought, 111 pages I'll be finished in just two days! Wrong, this is a book that you actually experience and it instead took 13 days for me to finish. A. W. Tozer wrote this book back in 1948 and was responding to the deadness that those attending church were feeling because the pastors of the time we not teaching people how to know God.

At first I was not sure that I would like the book because the tone was a bit different but after about 10 pages or so I understood his cadence and tone and it was much easier to read so if it seems a little dry, stay with it you'll get his way of speaking in a few pages. My favorite page of the book is page 7; it describes his desire to make us want to really get to know God on a very personal level. It is here that he very accurately describes the state of our spirituality, and it floors me that this was also happening in 1948, you would think he is writing to our society today.

"The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our utter lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth."

"The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us."

My favorite chapter of the book is Chapter three, Removing the Veil. This chapter is about removing our selfishness and understanding what it means spiritually to be able to commune with God. He also explains the many characteristics of God, helping you draw closer to him. I would highly recommend this book; you will be walked through a real growing process of how to actively pursue a real and spiritual relationship with God. It is really a self examination of your heart and your personal relationship with our Creator.

This book was given to me by Aneko Press for my honest review.

I was challenged in my spiritual walk the first time that I read Tozer's Pursuit of God. This second time through the book, more than ten years later, I felt myself drawing closer the the Lord, once again. Although this is an old book, the truths are still convicting and practical. The chapters are short and the updated edition is easy to understand. It is a small book, but full of so much truth. It's a classic, and one that I will read over and over again.

I received this book from in exchange for an honest review

[Note: This book was provided free of charge by Aneko Press/Life Sentence Publishing in exchange for an honest review.]

Like Pilgrim’s Progress, The Pursuit Of God is a book that is considered a Christian classic, and both of these books focus on a believer’s walk with God, and with the practical outgrowth of faith in action. Where Bunyan’s classic work is an allegory full of plainspoken but easily accessible wisdom, this book is written in a somewhat paradoxical way, in that it has the elevated language and quotations of various Christian mystics would presuppose a high degree of religious knowledge on the part of the reader, but at the same time the book is particularly harsh towards head knowledge that is not translated into heart knowledge. Although there is a lot of mystical language here, some of it quotation from other Christian mystics going back to the early centuries of Hellenistic Christianity and to close to the present period, like Augustine, Nicholas of Cusa, Thomas a Kempis, and Friedrich von Hugel, among others, the real appeal of this book is its passionate appeal for believers to live their faith and to overcome the false dilemmas between the ‘real’ and the spiritual and the sacred and the secular. For its brave defense of a unified Christianity that applies to all areas of life alone, this book is worthy of praise, and worthy of being read.

In terms of its structure, the book reads like a series of meditations that begin with biblical verses and that often at least refer to scripture, or at least the author’s understanding of scripture, but that quickly leave the firm foundation of God’s word in the Bible and enter into the much more murky world of speculation as well as the not entirely godly example of various Hellenistic Christians through the ages, who are quoted here at much greater length than the word of God. Each of the chapters of the book, furthermore, end with a passionate prayer from the author to God. To be sure, this book deals with such matters as the imminence and transcendence of God, the immense graciousness of God in first calling us to Him and then provoking our longing so that we follow Him and grow. Some of the language of this book is deeply profound and moving, such as the author’s commentary on the qualities of various godly individuals in scripture and history: “I venture to suggest that the one vital quality which they had in common was spiritual receptivity. Something in them was open to heaven, something which urged them Godward. Without attempting anything like a profound analysis, I shall say simply that they had spiritual awareness and that they went on to cultivate it until it became the biggest thing in their lives. They differed from the average person in that when they felt the inward longing, they did something about it. They acquired the lifelong habit of spiritual response. They were not disobedient to the heavenly vision (52-53).” Passages like these demonstrate the sincerity of the author’s passionate search for intimacy with God, a zeal which should be present in the lives of all believers.

That is not to say that this book is perfect, or even close to perfect. In particular, the author is remarkably sloppy about matters of interpretation and what is written in scripture. One time, for example, the author’s speculation about the supposedly perilous relationship between Abraham and Isaac, a peril based on a misunderstanding of what is said in Genesis, leads the editor of the book to make this pointed remark in a footnote: “We are unaware of this thought being supported in scripture. Rather, Genesis 22:1 says And it came to pass after these things that God proved Abraham. This verse indicates a test rather than a reprimand (14).” When the author makes the following quote: ““we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal and the majesty co-eternal.” So in part run the ancient creeds, and so the inspired Word declares (25-26),” the knowledgeable and godly reader can only reply: “But where does it say that, either in word or in idea, in scripture?” And the answer is silence, for the author mistakes the Hellenistic language of the creeds with a Bible that does not say anything of the kind whatsoever. The author would know that if he knew his Bible better, and if he was content to let his mind be filled with God rather than allow it to be mediated by the thoughts and words of post-Nicene church fathers and mystics. Yet this book is to be praised not for its zeal not according to knowledge, but for its sincerity of heart, and for pushing its reader towards a life of practical obedience, with the hope that the reader may be wiser and more obedient to God’s ways than the author himself.

I have to say that this is one of my absolute favorite books that I have ever read. When I received this book I thought, 111 pages I'll be finished in just two days! Wrong, this is a book that you actually experience and it instead took 13 days for me to finish. A. W. Tozer wrote this book back in 1948 and was responding to the deadness that those attending church were feeling because the pastors of the time we not teaching people how to know God.

At first I was not sure that I would like the book because the tone was a bit different but after about 10 pages or so I understood his cadence and tone and it was much easier to read so if it seems a little dry, stay with it you'll get his way of speaking in a few pages. My favorite page of the book is page 7; it describes his desire to make us want to really get to know God on a very personal level. It is here that he very accurately describes the state of our spirituality, and it floors me that this was also happening in 1948, you would think he is writing to our society today.

"The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our utter lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth."

"The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us."

My favorite chapter of the book is Chapter three, Removing the Veil. This chapter is about removing our selfishness and understanding what it means spiritually to be able to commune with God. He also explains the many characteristics of God, helping you draw closer to him. I would highly recommend this book; you will be walked through a real growing process of how to actively pursue a real and spiritual relationship with God. It is really a self examination of your heart and your personal relationship with our Creator.

This book was given to me by Aneko Press for my honest review.

These beliefs are part of the reason our human endeavor has not progressed as rapidly as it could have without the ridiculous belief in the invisible wizard in the sky.
I am ashamed of that segment of humanity for clinging to this belief. If there were a God then he most assuredly would be more rightly categorized as a Devil than an all loving God.
I rejoice that I am self aware and able to look out at the Cosmos on a starry night and ponder the discovery of civilizations on distant planets.
Hopefully, our future as earthlings include these discoveries and other answers to questions yet imagined.
Thankfully, as man evolves he will discard these beliefs as evolution marches forward. It is just tedious to be living at a time where so many of our bothers and sisters cling to these beliefs and never truly see the magnificence of the sunrise for what it truly is.

I had read this book a long time ago and it was so refreshing to read it again. It is a timeless book that speaks to the heart of every man and woman who is in the pursuit of God. This edition has been updated so is easier to read and understand.

I was amazed as I read The Pursuit of God as it seemed like it had been written today. Sometimes we forget that the troubles of man never change and that the things we're seeing today have been seen before. Not only that, but the heart of man is always looking for an answer and it is the pursuit of God and the relationship with God that fulfills us.

So many in the church are not being fed the Word of God. As Miilton says, "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." So many of our churches are feeding us milk and platitudes when what we need is meat and something substantial.

Tozer gives us so much in this little book in teaching us how to grow closer to the Lord. How to get more out of our time that we spend with the Lord. He inspires us to long for the Lord, and in that longing, to spend the quality time in getting to know him and be in a true relationship with Him.

This book has ignited the soul fires for me again. I highly recommend this book as it will grow your relationship with God and give you a fire for that pursuit of Him! I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

*This book was provided to me by the publisher Aneko Press

I have read and re-read and re-read and will continue to study this magnificent book. I cannot get enough instruction. The author helps me to believe that I can actually have a life that pleases God by using scriptures, prayers and instructions tailored to the Christian walk. I hope to one day buy it in hardback so I can share it with others in a Bible study.

These beliefs are part of the reason our human endeavor has not progressed as rapidly as it could have without the ridiculous belief in the invisible wizard in the sky.
I am ashamed of that segment of humanity for clinging to this belief. If there were a God then he most assuredly would be more rightly categorized as a Devil than an all loving God.
I rejoice that I am self aware and able to look out at the Cosmos on a starry night and ponder the discovery of civilizations on distant planets.
Hopefully, our future as earthlings include these discoveries and other answers to questions yet imagined.
Thankfully, as man evolves he will discard these beliefs as evolution marches forward. It is just tedious to be living at a time where so many of our bothers and sisters cling to these beliefs and never truly see the magnificence of the sunrise for what it truly is.