Skyler Powell

“Nobody ever knows the whole truth. That’s why promises mean something. Otherwise they’d be too easy, don’t you see? We look toward the unknown future and promise to be faithful no matter what comes.”
― Claudia Gray, Lost Stars

“My availability to God’s call to sacrifice—Abraham’s availability to God’s call to sacrifice, your availability to God’s call to sacrifice—is predicated on understanding that God doesn’t need any more messiahs. He sent one. The job is finished. We are not needed. I am not needed. Ah, but I’m wanted. That’s liberating, isn’t it? To not be needed but wanted?”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together

“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

“Every other religion in the world has man in the gutter trying to figure out how to get to heaven; only Christianity has heaven coming down to the gutter.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Imperfect Disciple: Grace for People Who Can't Get Their Act Together