Joel

“Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God-it whets our appetite. Our need for God is not taken care of by engaging in worship-it deepens.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“identity is always rooted in the things we look toward to save us, the things to which we give ultimate allegiance. To ask, “Who are you?” is to ask, “Whose are you?” To know who you are is to know what you have given yourself to, what controls you, what you most fundamentally trust.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy

“We were made in “the image of God” (Genesis 1:26–27). There can be no image without an original of which the image is a reflection. “To be in the image” means that human beings were not created to stand alone. We must get our significance and security from something of ultimate value outside us. To be created in God’s image means we must live for the true God or we will have to make something else God and orbit our lives around that.3”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy