“Any appeal to the public in the name of Christ that rises no higher than an invitation to tranquillity must be recognized as mere humanism with a few words of Jesus thrown in to make it appear Christian…
“Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name.
“He calls them to forsake the world; we assure them that if they but accept Jesus the world is their oyster.
“He calls them to suffer; we call them to enjoy all the bourgeois comforts modern civilization affords.
“He calls them to self-abnegation and death; we call them to spread themselves like green bay trees or perchance even to become stars in a pitiful fifth-rate religious zodiac.
“He calls them to holiness; we call them to a cheap and tawdry happiness that would have been rejected with scorn by the least of the Stoic philosophers…
“We can afford to suffer now; we’ll have a long eternity to enjoy ourselves. And our enjoyment will be valid and pure, for it will come in the right way at the right time.”
– A.W. Tozer (born April 21, 1897, Died May 12, 1963)
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