Skyler Powell

“Even after many of us are saved, we run ahead of the gospel into the field of the law, in our own power, trying to do great things for God or earn favor with him—all the while forgetting that the only thing the Bible calls power for obedience is the gospel and that it is actually grace that teaches us how to repent and obey.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

“Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted on macaroni and cheese.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“For in the Christian story, the antagonist is not non-Christians but the reality of sin, which (as the gospel tells us) lies within us as well as within them.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work