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"Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have
neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the
world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of
heart.
You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet
you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your
pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts,
but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its
pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you
take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a
terror to yourself, and you are as loath to be very good as
you are fearful to be very bad."
William Law (1686-1761)
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
Revelation 3:15-16
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"Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have
neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the
world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of
heart.
You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet
you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your
pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts,
but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its
pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you
take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a
terror to yourself, and you are as loath to be very good as
you are fearful to be very bad."
William Law (1686-1761)
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
Revelation 3:15-16
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Wow, where did you find William Law's quote? It hits the nail on the head!
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Amen.
Law's quote reminds me of poem, Pastel God, (you can hear Dr. Ray Guarendi read it here - http://underthepoetree.blogspot.com
Dr. Ray comments on the "new atheism:" "Yes, there's a God...and he thinks just like me." That's the "loath to be very good as you are fearful to be very bad" which is running rampant all over the place, most frighteningly in the Church.
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