The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred.
The religious life of America must be saved from both the selfish and the sentimental, to the sacrificial. Very often a feeling of being sentimental toward Christian things covers a selfish attitude. We take it for granted that because we can feel, we have thereby the facts that underlie Christianity. The fact that underlies Christianity is the Cross — that is the attitude we should take toward life.
E Stanley Jones, April 8, 1929
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