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“When we simply ignore (either intellectually or psychologically) the parts of God we don’t like, it means we don’t have a God that can ever contradict our deepest desires or say “no” to us. We never wrestle with Him, We never let Him make demands on us. We can end up worshiping a much more comfortable God, but also a nonexistent one.”

“The real issue in worship-by-images is the desire o shape and revise God spiritually.... We filter out...things about God that our hearts can’t accept.... [W]e can do this without fashioning a physical image.”

“So, the reason that the Israelites (like all of us) continually needed revival was because truths about God which were once vibrant and real to them eventually became unreal. Our hearts are like a bucket of water on a very cold day—they will freeze over unless we regularly smash the ice that is forming.”