“Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of
our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do
not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don’t rock the boat
but don’t even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell
us to run along and pick marigolds. Talk about man creating God in his own
image! Sometimes—and this seems the greatest irony of all—these folks invoke
the name of Jesus as one who was this kind of ‘comfortable’ God. Really? He who
said not only should we not break commandments, but we should not even think
about breaking them. And if we do think about breaking them, we have already
broken them in our heart. Does that sound like ‘comfortable’ doctrine, easy on
the ear and popular down at the village love-in?” – Jeffrey R. Holland
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