“This otherworldliness or antiworldliness is actually conformity to the world with a vengeance. And, for professed Christians, it is the most ignominious possible apostasy.”

—  William Stringfellow

Source: An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 44

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