28 Quotes by Jared C. Wilson

Sometimes when God closes a door, it’s because he wants us inside when the building collapses.

The cross is proof that God loves sinners.

We will always prefer lesser satisfactions to the satisfaction of Christ, because the lesser ones appeal to the god of self – a ravenous, insatiable, fickle idol indeed – while satisfaction in Christ requires that we assassinate that god. We won’t know what it really means for the joy of the Lord to be our strength until we’ve had intravenous idolatry yanked out and all other crutches kicked away. For many of us, Jesus won’t be our absolute treasure until we are out of options.

In short, I am a riddle to myself; a heap of inconsistence. John Newton1 My.

The gospel is a family meal. It is meant to be enjoyed regularly and intentionally in the presence of others and for the benefit of others.

If anything, we should be astounded they let us into the community. Given what we know of ourselves, given that we are the worst sinners we know, it is a staggeringly arrogant thing to begrudge any other repentant follower of Jesus a place at the dance. If the bar was low enough to allow our entry, what advantage is there to raising it?

The remedy for our deadness to God’s grace is more grace.”5.

There is more security, in fact, with Christ in the middle of a stormy sea than without Christ in the warm stillness of our bathtub.

Lay aside such numberings of the people, such idle pretense of certifying in half a minute that which will need the testing of a lifetime.3.