“All of our natural intuitions tell us that Jesus is with us, on our side, present and helping, when life is going well. This text says the opposite... It is in our weakness that Jesus sympathizes with us.” LoveJesusFaith In GodChrisitanityGentle And Lowly Author:Dane Ortlund
“His rest is gift, not transaction. Whether you are actively working hard to crowbar your life into smoothness ("labor") or passively finding yourself weighed down by something outside your control ("heavy laden"), Jesus Christ's desire that you find rest, that you come in out of the storm, outstrips even your own.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“But the dominant note left ringing in our ears after reading the Gospels, the most vivid and arresting element of the portrait, is the way the Holy Son of God moves toward, touches, heals, embraces, and forgives those who least deserve it yet truly desire it.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“In other words, we don't feel the weight of our sin because of: our sin.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once w begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“Our goal is that our kids would leave the house at eighteen and be unable to live the rest of their lives believing that their sins and sufferings repel Christ.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“A correct understanding of the triune God is not that of a Father whose central disposition is judgment and a Son whose central disposition is love. The heart of both is one and the same; this is, after all, one God, not two. Theirs is a heart of redeeming love, not compromising justice and wrath but beautifully satisfying justice and wrath.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“The yearning heart of God delivers and redelivers sinners who find themselves drowning in the sewage of their life, twenty-nine chapters deep, in need of a rescue that they cannot even begin on their own, let alone complete.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“We can be immoral dead people, or we can be moral dead people. Either way, we're dead.” Theology Quotes Author:Dane Ortlund
“Sve što mi Otac daje, doći će k meni i neću odbaciti onoga koji mi dođe. Jovan 6:37 Riječ neću je snažno naglašena u grčkom tekstu gdje doslovno piše: onoga koji dolazi k meni neću, neću odbaciti. U grčkom se ponekad koriste dve negacije da bi se postigla silina izraza. Hristos kaže "Potpuno je sigurno da ga nikad, baš nikad neću odbaciti." Ali ja sam veliki grešnik, ti kažeš. "Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja sam stari grešnik, ti kažeš. "Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja sam okoreli grešnik, ti kažeš. "Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja sam grešnik koji sam otpao, kažeš ti. "Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja sam sve moje dane služio Sotoni, ti kažeš. "Neću te istjerati napolje" Hristos kaže. Ali ja sam sagrešio protiv svjetla, ti kažeš. "Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja sam sagrešio protiv milosti, kažeš ti. Neću te istjerati napolje" kaže Hristos. Ali ja nema dobroga da ponesem sa mnom, kažeš ti. Neću te istjerati napolje" Hristos kaže.” GraceGod S LoveMercy Forgiveness Author:Dane Ortlund