Wanted: Quiet Fanatics

“It is a growing conviction of mine that no parish can fulfill its true function unless there is at the very center of its leadership life a small community of quietly fanatic, changed and truly converted Christians.  The trouble with most parishes is that nobody, including the pastor, is really greatly changed. . . .

"We do not want ordinary men.  Ordinary men cannot win the brutally pagan life of a city like New York for Christ.  We want quiet fanatics.”

-- John Heuss, Our Christian Vocation (Greenwich, 1955), pages 15-16.

HT: Ray Ortlund, Jr.