Carissa Van Bogelen’s Reviews > Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers > Status Update

"those is union with him are promised that all the haunted brokenness that infects everything will one day be rewound and reversed"

"we are pieces of art, designed to be beautiful and thus draw attention to the artist."

"we will be less sinful in the next life than we are now, but we will not be any more secure in the next life than we are now."

"reject the devil's whisper that God's tender heart, for you has grown a little colder, a little stiffer. He is not flustered by your sinfulness. His deepest disappointment is with your tepid thoughts of his heart"

"God is infinitely compassionate and infinitely ready to forgive, so that it ought to be ascribed exclusively to our unbelief, if we do not obtain pardon from him."

"what would we say to a seven-year-old who, upon being given a birthday gift by his loving father, immediately scrambled to reach for his piggy bank to try to pay his dad back?"