Gentle And Lowly Quotes

“It is in "our weaknesses" that Jesus sympathizes with us.”
― Dane Ortlund

“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.”
― Dane Ortlund

“The gospel...sweeps us into Christ's very heart.”
― Dane Ortlund

“One thing to get straight right from the start is that when the Bible speaks of the heart, whether Old Testament or New, it is not speaking of our emotional life only but of the central animating center of all we do. It is what gets us out of bed in the morning and what we daydream about as we drift off to sleep. It is our motivation headquarters. The heart, in Biblical terms, is not part of who we are but the center of who we are. Our heart is what defines and directs us. This is why Solomon tells us to 'keep [the] heart with all vigilance, for from it flows the springs of life' (Prov. 4:23). The heart is a matter of life. It is what makes us the human being each of us is. The heart drives all we do. It is who we are.

And when Jesus tells us what animates him most deeply, what is most true of him – when he exposes the innermost recesses of his being – what we find there is: gentle and lowly.

Who could ever have thought up such a savior?

(Gentle and Lowly, pgs. 18-19)”
― Dane Ortlund