Hailey Gursoy’s Reviews > Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners > Status Update

“So much as we see the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more. Every other discovery of God, without this, will but make the soul fly from him; but if the heart be once much taken up with this the eminence of the Father’s love, it cannot choose but be overpowered, conquered, and endeared unto him… If the love of a father will not make a child delight in him, what will?” (John Owen)

“If you plunge down only a little into self-despair, you will rise only a little into joyous growth in Christ. “The index of the soundness of a man’s faith in Christ l,” writes J.I. Packer, “is the genuineness of the self-despair from which it springs.”

“To the degree that we minimize the evil within, we lower the ceiling on how deeply we can grow…The severity of our condition dictates the depth and seriousness of the medicine we know we need. If you view your sinfulness as a bothersome headache more than a lethal cancer, you will see tepid growth, if any. You won’t see yourself as needing to grow all that much.”

Love the way this book opens up, reminding us of who Jesus is.

“You are on the right track now: getting to the real Man behind all the plaster dolls that have been substituted for Him. This is the appearance in Human form of the God who made the Tiger and the Lamb, the avalanche and the rose. He’ll frighten you and puzzle you: but the real Christ can be loved and admired as the doll can’t.”