Love Quote by David Wilkerson

Wilkerson’s line lands like a pastoral alarm bell, but it’s also a cultural critique disguised as church talk. He isn’t merely scolding “worldliness”; he’s naming a cycle he watched up close: religious intensity that burns hot, then cools into busyness, status-seeking, and the anxious maintenance of a respectable life. The sting comes from the contrast he builds between “passionately in love” and “run about.” One is intimate and singular, the other frantic and scattered. In that gap, he locates the modern spiritual condition: distraction as a form of quiet apostasy.

The intent is corrective, but the subtext is sympathy sharpened into warning. “Burdened down with stress and problems” reads less like moral condemnation than diagnosis. Wilkerson is describing how consumer ambition doesn’t just tempt believers; it exhausts them, replaces devotion with management, and turns “interests” into a full-time identity. The phrase “chasing after riches” is classic biblical language, yet he updates it with the psychology of strain: you don’t only want things, you’re crushed by wanting them.

Context matters. Wilkerson rose to prominence through gritty, street-level ministry and later became a prophetic voice in Pentecostal/evangelical circles, often suspicious of comfortable Christianity. This quote fits that tradition’s fear that faith can be domesticated into a self-improvement project. It also echoes late-20th-century America’s gospel of hustle: even piety can become another performance metric. His rhetorical move is to reframe “success” as a spiritual stress test: what you pursue reveals what you worship.