Kim Hatton

“Religion is not the place where the problem of man's egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God's grace takes place. Human pride may win the battle, and then religion can and does become one more instrument of human sin. But if there the self does meet God and His grace, and so surrenders to something beyond its self-interest, then Christian faith can prove to be the needed and rare release from human self-concern.”
― Langdon Brown Gilkey

“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“Discontent makes a breach in the soul, and, usually at this breach, the devil enters by a temptation and storms the soul.”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 [Updated and Annotated]

“In no one could there be the contrast that our Lord experienced between total trust and total knowledge of all the Lord’s goodness and mercy and the total horror of abandonment by God,” Clowney said. “For only Jesus Christ really trusted the Lord, you know, and only Jesus Christ really trusted in all the fullness of broken, unblemished, undeviating trust. And it’s the one who only trusted who is completely abandoned.”
― Collin Hansen, Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation