Christian Thinking
People are not always what they seem

...the discerning Christian knows that s cunning or intelligent man may lead a life of almost diabolical pride, in which he strives in every moment to minister to the desires and vanities of his own inflated self—and yet may pass of for a respectable, law abiding citizen. Indeed, he may rise to a position of eminence in the world by the persistence and subtle practice of he most calculated self service…The Christian mind knows that in any sorting out of the sheep and goats of the virtuous from the sinful, the forces of Heaven would slice through human society at an unexpected angle. The knife would cut firmly but certainly not horizontally. What we can say or think about how it would separate the self-seekers from the fundamentally God-directed souls, except that it would certainly not leave all the convicts and perverts and public nuisances on one side, and all the cabinet ministers and business executives and members of the Watch Committee on the other?

Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind, How Should a Christian Think? (Ann Arbor, Mi: Servant Books, 1963), pp. 90-91.