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

“The sins of those who belong to God open the floodgates of his heart of compassion for us. The dam breaks. it is not our loveliness that wins his love. It is our unloveliness.”

Fallen, anxious sinners are limitless in their capacity to perceive reasons for Jesus to cast them out. …. We cannot present a reason for Christ to finally close off his heart to his own sheep. With Christ, our sins and weaknesses are the very résumé items that qualify us to approach him.” (Whoever comes to me I will never cast out. John 6:37)

“Our sinless high priest is not one who needs rescue but who provides it.” (on Hebrews 4:15)

“We tend to think that when we approach Jesus for help in our need and mercy amid our sins, we somehow detract from him, lessen him, impoverish him … Jesus Christ is comforted when you draw from the riches of his atoning work, because his own body is getting healed.”

“The cumulative testimony of the four gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.” …. “When Jesus, the Clean One, touched an unclean sinner, Christ did not become unclean. The sinner became clean.”