Spirituality is actually of little benefit to anyone, least of all to ourselves, if not characterized by lively and powerful affections. Nothing is so antithetical to true religion as lukewarmness. God is displeased with weak, dull, and lifeless inclinations. Consider those many biblical texts where our relationship to God is compared to "running, wrestling or agonizing for a great prize or crown, and fighting with strong enemies that seek our lives, and warring as those that by violence take a city or kingdom."
Sam Storms, Convergence, p. 227
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