David A. Wilson

“In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self—mind, will, and emotions.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ

“All this means that we are called to be people who learn to hear God’s voice speaking today within the ancient text, and who become vessels of that living word in the world around us.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Step-by-Step Basics of Christian Faith and Practice

“Christian faith isn’t a general religious awareness. Nor is it the ability to believe several unlikely propositions. It is certainly not a kind of gullibility which would put us out of touch with any genuine reality. It is the faith which hears the story of Jesus, including the announcement that he is the world’s true Lord, and responds from the heart with a surge of grateful love that says: “Yes. Jesus is Lord.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Step-by-Step Basics of Christian Faith and Practice

“Indeed, Luther saw that “in Christ, the God-forsaken sinner has a Savior who has taken on himself the full depths of human estrangement from God—and overcome it.”106 Why should we be surprised, then, asked Luther, that our lives are often filled with darkness and pain? Even God himself in Christ did not avoid that. But though God’s purposes are often every bit as hidden and obscure as they were to Job and to the observers at the foot of the cross, we—who have the teaching of the Bible and have grasped the message of the Bible—know that the way up is down. The way to power, freedom, and joy is through suffering, loss, and sorrow.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering