I normally don’t post more than once a week, but I read this quote on FaceBook this morning and had to pass it on:
“On the whole I do not find Christians, outside of catacombs, to be sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out where we can never return.”
(Annie Dillard)
I just love that!
