Ultimately the lesson Mr. Kuo hopes his fellow evangelicals learn goes far beyond this president and his policies. “At the end of the day,” he said, “politics is easy; God is hard.” Politics, by setting up very tangible enemies to be defeated, “gives the illusion of a solution,” he said, while God demands personal transformation. “What,” he asked, “is harder than to be transformed by unconditional love?”

This very contrast between political change and personal transformation has deep evangelical roots, of course. Secular progressives might counter with the mirror image of his formulation: God is easy; politics is hard.

Source: The Disillusionment of a Young White House Evangelical – New York Times

Secular progressives might counter with the mirror image of his formulation: God is easy; politics is hard.

Christian progressives might counter with the mirror image of his formulation: God is hard; politics is hard; God and Politics is hard; 

In fact,  STEINFELS (the reviewer from whom I am quoting here)  says just this (without associating it with the current Christian Progressive movement: 

And then there is another possibility: God is hard, and so is politics — at least the politics practiced with a good deal of skepticism, with an anticipation of compromises and setbacks, and with a recognition of the pride and egoism, as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr pointed out, that infects even (or perhaps especially) humanity’s most faith-based initiatives.