With our loss of the sense of majesty has come further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence. Modern Christianity is simply not producing the kind of Christian who can appreciate or experience the life in the Spirit. The words, “Be still, and know that I am God,” mean next to nothing to the self-confident, bustling worshiper in this middle period of the twentieth century . . . It is impossible to keep our moral practices sound and our inward attitudes right while our idea of God is erroneous or inadequate.

A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, vii-viii.