Frederick Alliance Church

05/31/2026

08/13/2022

In the kingdom of God what we will is accepted as what we are. “If any man will,” said our Lord, “let him.” God does not desire to destroy our wills, but to sanctify them. In that terrible, wonderful moment of surrender it may be that we feel that our will has been forever broken, but such is not the case. In His conquest of the soul God does not destroy any of its normal powers. He purges the will and brings it into union with His own, but He never breaks it.

A. W. Tozer and Harry Verploegh, The Set of the Sail (Camp Hill, PA.: WingSpread, 1986), 12.

07/30/2022

"One thing stops God dead in his steps. ... I speak of pride. Pride usurps God. Pride inverts the universe's deepest truth: that we need and serve God. Pride gets this exactly backward: Pride is the delusion that God, if he exists, is awfully lucky I've shown up and should mind his p's and q's lest I change my mind." Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, p. 72

07/16/2022

The average church has so established itself organizationally and financially that God is simply not necessary to it. So entrenched is its authority and so stable are the religious habits of its members that God could withdraw Himself completely from it as it could run on for years on its own momentum. And the same is true of schools, Bible conferences and missionary societies.

A. W. Tozer and Harry Verploegh, The Warfare of the Spirit (Camp Hill, PA.: WingSpread, 1993), 10–11.

07/12/2022

God doesn’t extend into space; God contains space. C.S. Lewis said that if you could think of a sheet of paper infinitely extended in all directions, and if you took a pencil and made a line one inch long on it, that would be time. When you started to push your pencil it was the beginning of time and when you lifted it off the paper it was the end of time. And all around, infinitely extended in all directions, is God. That’s a good illustration.

A. W. Tozer and David E. Fessenden, The Attributes of God: A Jouney into the Father’s Heart, vol. 1 (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2003–), 5–6.

07/07/2022

The world hated Jesus without a cause. In spite of their fantastic charges against Him, Christ’s contemporaries found nothing in either His doctrines or His deeds to rouse in them such unreasonable anger as they constantly displayed toward Him. They hated Him, not for anything He said or did, but for what He was.

A. W. Tozer and Harry Verploegh, The Warfare of the Spirit (Camp Hill, PA.: WingSpread, 1993), 3–4.