tozer’s tests

“Knowing that some good people might call me a mystic or an extremist, and having on my own account a rather cautious mind, I have carefully checked everything as it occurred by the two tests of Scripture and fruit, and I have come to this conclusion : whatever leads a man to adore the Triune God and to trust with growing appreciation the precious blood of atonement; whatever makes him hate sin more intensely, love the brethren with broader charity, love the Word of God as the very fountain of all truth, love God’s ancient people, the Jew; respect and obey the laws of the land, and work for the evangelization of the lost world—whatever, I say, has this effect cannot be false or fanatical. It must be of God.”

A.W. Tozer, 1950, in Moody Monthly magazine.