Quotable

There is a namby-pamby effeminate kind of Christianity...telling the sinning world that they are not to be blamed....“Don’t tell the drunkard that he’s guilty, he’s got a disease.” A disease that he purposely and deliberately drank out of a bottle...knowing what it would do to him....

...The modern gospel doesn’t say too much about sin. It makes an awful lot about a whimpering Savior who whimpers over people...excuses them, tells them, “Hush, hush, don’t mention your sin. I died for you upon the tree....” This is not the [Christianity] of the New Testament,. ...It’s a...watered-down, perfumed kind of Christianity, that parades a pathetic...Christ up and down in front of people who scorn Him....Sin is your own fault, and it’s my own fault if I sin, it’s not an excuse so I can say it was an accident or it’s a disease,...I can’t help myself, I’m a poor weak man. The cynical irony of the sinful life is that the ones who get us into our difficulties...prevent us from seeing...the executioner on the way...the black hole...that leads to hell below. ...Remember, young man, the ones that lead you into sin can never lead you out....

—A. W. Tozer, “Four Seasons of Life”

Dear God, Why didn’t you save the children in Littleton? Sincerely, Concerned Student....

Dear Concerned Student, I’m no longer allowed in schools. Sincerely, God.

—Carole Matson, Orange County Register, 2/2/00