Joseph Young

“New covenant victory does not begin with doing but with seeing. God's presence is a gift. Therefore, God's nearness is something we perceive, not something we achieve. We overcome when we see that Jesus is in the darkest room in the house, too. The whole house belongs to Him.”
― Doug A. Reed, God is a Gift: Learning to Live in Grace

“Sometimes, in the midst of our trials, we think that God's greatest desire is for us to hold on; we believe He is testing our faith. And if our faith is big enough and we hold on to the promise without letting go, God will get us through our troubles. Little do we know that if our eyes are on "our faith," our eyes are still on ourselves. We are robbing God of His glory by trying to be worthy of the gift.
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When we reach the end of "our faith" we can see what true faith is. It is seeing that God holds on to us. Even if we let go, God does not. Humble faith is seeing that Christ's victory has trumped our ability to fail; He is the Victor. There are no exceptions.”
― Doug A. Reed, God is a Gift: Learning to Live in Grace

“God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.”
― Karl Barth, Christ and Adam: Man and Humanity in Romans 5

“Everything has a soul and a body, or something like them. By the body we know the soul. But we are always ready to love the body instead of the soul. Therefore, God makes the body die continually, that we may learn to love the soul indeed.”
― George MacDonald