I tell you something about nice people! The nice people do not come to God! Because they think they are good through their own merits, or bad through inherited instincts. If they do good, they believe they are to receive the credits for it, if they do evil, they deny that it is their own fault. They are good through their own good-heartedness, they say. But they are bad because they are misfortunate, either it is their economic life or through an inheritance of evil genes from their grandparents etc. The nice people rarely come to God. They take their moral tone from the society in which they live. Like the pharisees infront of the temple, they believe themselves to be very respectable citizens. Elegance is their test of virtue to them. The moral is the aesthetic, the evil is the ugly. Every move they make is dictated, not by a love of goodness, but by the influence of their age. Their intellects are cultivated in knowledge of current events. They read only bestsellers, but their hearts are undisciplined. They say they would go to church, if the church would only be better. But they never tell you how much better the church must be before they join it. They sometimes condemn the gross sin of society, like murder. By avoiding the sins which society condemns, they escape reproach, they consider themselves good. Par excellence, you may say.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 04:50:58 +0000