"Their Passions a Quotation"

Last night I attended a bi-monthly student-led worship service called "Focus" here at Lincoln Christian College & Seminary. The speaker shared one thought that kind of stuck with me. He quoted Oscar Wilde as saying:

"Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

You can almost hear the disdain in Wilde's voice, saying that "most people" are unoriginal and incomplete. But last night's speaker made an interesting point . . . as Christians, it should be a compliment for someone to say that our lives are a mimicry and our passions a quotation, so long as they have seen that the one we are mimicking is Jesus Christ.