The Glory Has Departed

"The world is evil, the times are waxing late, and the glory of God has departed from the church as the fiery cloud once lifted from the door of the Temple in the sight of Ezekiel the prophet.

"The God of Abraham has withdrawn His conscious presence from us, and another God, whom our fathers knew not, is making himself at home among us. This God we have made and because we have make him we can understand him; because we have created him he can never surprise us, never overwhelm us, nor astound us, nor transcend us."

A.W. Tozer ("God's Infinitude" in The Knowledge of the Holy)