EARTHLY
THINGS; PRIORITIES

The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up our rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God’s gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.

Matthew 6:19–21, 23; Matthew 16:24–26; Matthew 19:21–22; 1 Timothy 6:17–19

The Pursuit of God, 22.