Daniel Kim

“Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. We may as well try to instruct leprosy out of our system. There must be a work of God in destruction before we are free.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“One way of judging the quality of theologies,” he explains, “is to see what sort of devotion they produce.”32”
― Sam Storms, Packer on the Christian Life: Knowing God in Christ, Walking by the Spirit

“Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.”
― Paul David Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

“One should suppose that proper instruction in the doctrines of man’s depravity and the necessity for justification through the righteousness of Christ alone would deliver us from the power of the self-sins; but it does not work out that way.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God