We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on society's acceptance of moral decay as a norm.
Aiden Wilson Tozer's quote highlights the troubling reality that people have become desensitized to immorality, treating it as an ordinary aspect of life rather than something to be resisted or transformed. It urges us to reflect on how we have allowed unholiness to permeate our values, suggesting that such acceptance can lead to a decay of true moral standards and the essence of goodness in society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of moral values in community.
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, βWhat is God like?β and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.
Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.