“In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!”

—  Aiden Wilson Tozer

I Talk Back to the Devil: Essays in Spiritual Perfection (1990).

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