Alliance, Tozer’s own denomination, and Let My People Go, about pioneer missionary R. A. Jaffray (both books are still in print). But Tozer didn’t think of himself as a writer—he was a pastor. In fact, Tozer had a very different view as to when a person should write. James Snyder, in his biography, quotes him on the subject: “The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by … inward pressure.… You should never write a book unless you just have to” (In Pursuit