"Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty."

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The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

— J. I. Packer