Be killing sin or it will be killing you.
– John Owen
– John Owen
I have a great need for Christ;
– Charles Spurgeon
I have a great Christ for my need.
On the cross, we see what God did to satisfy his yearning for us. He went that far. He went all the way.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
This is profound consolation for us as we find ourselves time and again wandering away from the Father, looking for soul calm anywhere but in his embrace and instruction. Returning to God in fresh contrition, however ashamed and disgusted with ourselves, he will not tepidly pardon. He will abundantly pardon. He does not merely accept us. He sweeps us up in his arms again.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
Christianity is not about coming to God so that he can direct us to something or someone better than himself, some other thing that will make us ultimately happy. No, God himself is the one in whom all our joy, pleasure, and happiness are found. If we are made for infinite happiness – and that is what every person in the world is groping after – then the only place one will find it is in the one, and only one, who is infinite.
– Matthew Barrett in None Greater
Our sinning goes to the uttermost. But his saving grace goes to the uttermost. And his saving always outpaces and overwhelms our sinning, because he always lives to intercede for us.
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
“Only as we drink down the kindness of the heart of Christ will we leave in our wake, everywhere we go, the aroma of heaven, and die one day having startled the world with glimpses of a divine kindness too great to be boxed by what we deserve.”
– Dane Ortlund in Gentle and Lowly
…no one can know or see the very essence of God. He is so glorious, and his glory so infinite, that we would be consumed.
– Matthew Barrett in None Greater
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
– A.W. Tozer in The Knowledge of the Holy
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest