Kindle Notes & Highlights
If we know we are going to face a final exam of one question and we are told by the examiner what that question is to be, is it not reasonable to suppose that one question would gather to itself the interest and the energies and the concerns of all of us? Now here is the question. How did you respond to human need? That’s it. That is the question.
Søren Kierkegaard once said, “Some things are true when whispered but become false when shouted.” It is also true that some things become cheap when shouted. When one hears a glib and easy witness, one wonders, where is that awesome distance before God? How can anyone talk freely in God’s presence? When one repeatedly experiences the inability to speak when deeply and profoundly moved, then surely Christian witnesses must draw their breath in pain to tell this story. And those closest to God seem to be the ones most sensitive to the strong inclination to keep silence before him.
