Outward marks are often deceptive. The clever Christian,  the one who excels in fluent praying or vigorous preaching, or the one who can answer all theological questions, is not necessarily a disciple. Nor is it necessarily the one who has sold everything, down to the last shirt, in an act of "true discipleship." These things of themselves do not draw us close to God.  But God draws near, the scripture says,  "into them that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit."

Hunger for reality, George Verwer.