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The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

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The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.

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The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

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