'We tend to think of Christianity as a painless sytem by which we can escape the penalty of past sins and attain to heaven at last. The flaming desire to be rid of every unholy thing and to put on the likeness of Christ is not often found among us. We expect to enter the everlasting kingdom of our Father and sit down around the table with sages, sainst and martyrs...But for most of us it could prove at first an embarrassing experience. Ours might be the silence of the untried soldier in the presence of the battle-hardened heroes who have fought the fight and won the victory and who have the scars to prove that they were present when the battle was joined.'
AW Tozer in Nancy Guthrie (Ed.), Be Still My Soul, p.88.
