1973 - J. I. Packer - Knowing God
"Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: . . . great thoughts of man . . . small thoughts of God. . . Set God at a distance . . . Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligious world, have themselves allowed God to become remote. Clear-sighted persons, seeing this, are tempered to withdraw from the churches in something like disgust to pursue a quest of God on their own. Nor can one wholly blame them, for churchmen who look at God, so to speak, through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians, and clear-sighted people naturally want something better than this"
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