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“If David can make everything on God, even in the brink of despair, how much more can we today? For David saw God‘s steadfast love only in fairly abstract terms in past acts of deliverance through events such as the Exodus. We see God, steadfast, love in concrete terms, in great climatic act of deliverance in a person of his own son.” Dane Ortlund

“Life doesn’t slow down and somethings don’t get better. You either choose to receive the beauty and wonder of this life amidst the chaos or you never will.”

“Don’t keep doing the next thing just to keep doing the next thing. Do the next thing because it honors God and testifies of his goodness and the goodness of your life to your neighbor.”

“We must distinguish between confused sheep and active wolves”

“But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice, and he judges the world with righteousness (Psalm 9:7-8). God is never caught by surprise by amid global upheaval and strife. He is perplexed or left groping for solutions. And one day, all that is done in this stormy world will be brought into light and into judgment”

Humility is not threatened by the tension of uncertainty,learning, and growth. It is willing to patiently wrestle with new information

“Whatever else humility will require of you, it will never rob you of your dignity as an image bearer of God” pg. xxiii

“Commitment is falling in love with someone and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments that falter” David Brooks
Pg 199

The love of God made in a Daily Prayer Rhythm.

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it, take the shot from the weapon. Because who knows who will be the target of a well read man”