A W Tozer - What we think about God (Part 2)

What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.   A W Tozer


Continued from Part 1:

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question,  "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with some certainty the spiritual future of that man. Were we able to know exactly what our most influential religious leaders think of God today, we might be able with some precision to foretell where the church will stand tomorrow.

That our idea of God corresponds as nearly as possible to the true being of God is of immense importance to us.

Compared with our actual thoughts about Him, our creedal statements are of little consequence.

Our real idea of God may lie buried under the rubbish of conventional religious notions and may require an intelligent and vigorous search before it is finally unearthed and exposed for what it is.





Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God.

A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well.

It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse.





I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine or a failure in applying Christian ethics that cannot be traced finally to imperfect and ignoble thoughts about God.

It is my opinion that the current Christian conception of  God is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.

      --  From A W Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy, Chapter 1,
                                   Why we must think rightly about God.