The teachings of Christ reveal Him to be
a realist in the finest meaning of that word. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find
anything visionary or overoptimistic. He told His hearers the whole truth and
let them make up their minds. He might grieve over the retreating form of an
inquirer who could not face up to the truth, but He never ran after him to try
to win him with rosy promises. Jesus would have men follow Him, knowing the
cost, or He would let them go their ways.
-- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), quoted by Edythe Draper in Draper's
Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton: Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc., 1992).
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