A real Christian is an odd number. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen;
talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see;
expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be filled;
admits he is wrong so he can be declared right;
goes down in order to get up;
is strongest when he is weakest;
richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst.
He dies so he can live;
forsakes in order to have;
gives away so he can keep;
sees the invisible;
hears the inaudible;
and knows that which passes knowledge.
A. W. Tozer
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