Andrew Horton’s Reviews > Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers > Status Update

"We not only lived in sin; we enjoyed living in sin. We wanted to live in sin. It was our coddled treasure, our Gollum's ring, our settled delight. In short, we were dead. Utterly helpless. That's what His mercy healed."

On Ephesians 2:4- But God, being rich in mercy...

"The Christian Life, from one angle, is the long journey of letting our natural assumption about who God is, over many decades, fall away, being slowly replaced with God's own insistence on who He is."

"...it is not His disciples but His antagonists who most clearly perceived who He is. Though the crowds call Him the friend of sinners as an indictment, the label is one of unspeakable comfort for whose who know themselves to be sinners. That Jesus is friend to sinners is only contemptible to those who feel themselves not to be in that category."

"The Son of God clothes Himself with humanity and will never unclothe Himself. He became a man and always will be. This is the significance of the doctrine of Christ's ascension: He went into heaven with the very body, reflecting His full humanity, that was raised out of the tomb. He is and always has been divine. But His humanity, once taken on, will never end."