Quote of the Day

We must turn our back very resolutely upon every teaching of the Christian life which would lead us to try to obtain a direct vision of God.  We must not desire ever to hear audible voices or to have such visions as will give us a kind of mechanical, material certainty.  Now you know there were mystics who went in for that kind of thing… They did not like the idea of faith, they did not like the life which, as Paul describes it, says, 'we walk by faith not by sight'.  They wanted to see and hear, they wanted something tangible, and the result was they became victims of aberrations, of hallucinations and of all the manifestations which invariably accompany this craving for the immediate…We must not think of God in material terms.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones