“if God has flung open His temple-gates and said to us, ‘Come in,
My child, and dwell in the secret place of the Most High, and abide
there under the shadow of the Almighty, finding protection and
communion and companionship in My worship,’ there can be
nothing more insulting to Him, and nothing more fatally indicative of
the alienation of our hearts from Him, than that we should refuse to
obey the merciful invitation.” -Alexander MacLaren