God has only one intended destiny for mankind—holiness. His only goal is to produce saints. God is not some eternal blessing-machine for people to use…. Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy...
Rather than ask why God wanted Jesus to die the way he did, we should ask why God wanted Jesus to live the way he did and why this way of life led us to want to kill him.
The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof Grace--bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one...
Ask anyone what she means when she says, ‘God,’ and chances are you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
It is mysterious, but somehow, when everything else is stripped away, we find ourselves sitting [at Christ's table] in the abundance that remains. We encounter sustenance for the journey, companions for the road ahead, and the body and blood of Christ, which invites...
If God speaks to us at all...then I think that he speaks to us largely through what happens to us. from Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation----------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: If God speaks to us at all...then I think that God...
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.------------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The...
God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes. --from Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Because of the gap between an infinite God and finite people, and because human beings are both willfully sinful and unconsciously misdirected, there is no perfect or risk-free method when humans listen for God’s voice. There is no foolproof formula, no guaranteed...
If awe for what God does through us surpasses awe for what He has done for us, ministry is our idol.