We cannot change Christ; but instead we invent imaginary Christs, and they can be made to be anything at all that we would like Him to be. Our judgements are always, or nearly always, formed by our own needs and fears and limitations, not by an objective contemplation. Christ lives in us; but we do not know Him. We form a wrong conception of Him, an ego-projection Christ, an imaginary Christ who fits into our own narrowness, who does not shatter our complacency. To this imaginary Christ we bring all the fierce zeal and force that is born of the conviction that we are serving God—when we are at
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