He is God, you are not.

"You may have stopped following Jesus, but now you want to follow again.  When you stopped following Jesus, you did so on your terms.  But the returning to Jesus is strictly under his conditions.  He is God, and you are not.  Are you willing to follow Jesus anywhere, at any time, under any condition?  That is the only way you can follow him."

Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God Day by Day. February 19.

Intellectual honesty

"Intellectual honesty is one of the supreme goals of philosophy of religion, just as self-deception is the chief source of corruption in religious thinking, more deadly than error.  Hypocrisy rather than heresy is the cause of spiritual decay.  "Thou desirest truth in the inwardness" of man (Psalm 51)."  --Abraham Joshua Heschel.  God in Search of Man. Page 10-11.