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.
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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