Reviews for The sacred in life and art

The average rating for The sacred in life and art based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-19 00:00:00 Francis Landry A.W. Tozer says if we seek meaning in our lives by pursuing a Real, Living God, we will soon find the tables turned. For so desirous is He of giving true meaning to anyone who seeks him, God will then start pursuing US. For the rest of our lives. We'll try telling a barefaced lie - and God will hound us down. We'll find a certain lady deucedly attractive - and He'll shout, "now what in tarnation d'you think YOU'RE doing?" We'll ask Him for a special favour - and He'll heap it into our lap a HUNDREDFOLD. Don't believe me? Just try to find Him in your life. Seriously. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. He doesn't fool around. You don't dare mess with Him. But oh, how you cringe when the storm clouds gather... And guess what? He's still right there, showing you a way OUT of your mess. Some folks say that's all nonsense. That life is what you make it. But wait 20 or 30 years, and SEE what they've made of it - for by then, they've been given stale black bread for their banquet. Life is what you make it? No, we're a piece of clay in the hands of the Almighty. If he can't make anything of you, into the fire you go. Will you get a second chance? Time will tell... If you want frank, straight-up writing shooting straight from the hip, Tozer will deliver. Brought up poor, hungry and illiterate in rural Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, he rarely knew rest from his labours. Life was tough. But, meandering brokenly homeward after a gruelling day of back-breaking work, young Aiden heard snippets of a street preacher's message at the centre of town. How can we be saved, the message probably went? Salvation is a free gift. Our work doesn't save us - never has and never will. Only the free gift of supernatural Love will. Well, so Tozer then did the impossible - he pursued God. Yikes! When the scales fell wonderfully fell from his eyes, he KNEW God's Love had always pursued him. In his parents' corrections and disciplines. In the dinner that every night, miraculously appeared on the supper table. In the robin that woke him up for another day of relentless work, serenading and INSPIRING him. This was the Way. God had GIVEN the Way to him. No, friends, it was not by painstakingly memorizing who begat whom in the Book, or studying a foreign language, or even having great insight into the meaning of scripture. No. It was by insight into Real, Simple Being. And that Being, as Love - the Beatles once sang - is ALL YOU NEED.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-03 00:00:00 Rick Delis I bought this book for myself and was so moved by it that I reread it chapter by chapter often as my nightly devotional. I personally found it to be one of the best books to fill me with hope! This is the best edition of it available at Amazon: