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
Sabbath rest is about regaining our emotional and physical capital from God. It is the act of stopping long enough to breathe in his refreshing power.– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
When salvation comes to your house, first you think differently, then you act differently. First you shift the imagination with which you perceive this world, and then you enact gestures with which you honor it.– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
Rest is harder to find in a digital culture because technology has dissolved the two fundamental boundaries that are essential to rest: solitude and silence.– John Koessler in The Radical Pursuit of Rest
The wrath of God was satisfied with the suffering and death of Jesus. The holy curse against sin was fully absorbed. The obedience of Christ was completed to the fullest measure. The price of forgiveness was totally paid. The righteousness of God was completely vindicated. All that was left to accomplish was the public declaration of God’s endorsement. This he gave by raising Jesus from the dead.
– John Piper in Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
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