"I don’t want to be perfect" - but I do want to be better than am. I do want to be as good as I can be. I will never be mathematically perfect, everything just right, fixed. But as long as I live, I am going to be yearning after something that I have not yet achieved, and I am going to be responding to a pull that ever tugs me to a higher level of life.

I don’t want to be a semi-Christian. I don’t want to be a "born again" Christian whose "conversion turns him around ninety degrees instead of one hundred and eighty degrees." I don’t want to be "half dipped." I do want to have the spirit of Christ. I am hungry to have his love. I am yearning after perfection of inner life and attitude.

Why didn’t God just make us the way he wants us to be and save himself and us a lot of trouble? I guess …