“There is within the human heart a tough, fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets things with a deep and fierce passion…Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.”
A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) in The Pursuit of God (Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, 1982) 22.