Snippets: Cynics and Prophets

I think many Christian cynics may be fallen prophets. The prophet addresses God's people with engaged, sympathetic anguish, whereas the cynic ridicules God's people with distanced, apathetic annoyance...To make the transition from the way of the cynic to the way of the prophet, it is necessary to embrace both hopefulness and love.

Andrew Byers, Faith Without Illusions: Following Jesus as a Cynic-Saint , Kindle locations 1425, 1431