RENEWAL OF CHARACTER

James Davison Hunter, Professor at the University of Virginia wrote, “We say we want a renewal of character in our day but don’t really know what we ask for. To have a renewal of character is to have a renewal of a creedal order that constrains, limits, binds, obligates, and compels. This price is too high for us to pay. We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”

I might add: “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” (Proverbs 25:28)

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Jesus