Sometimes, my words get in the way. Tonight, I’ll let others speak for me.

“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares The Lord GOD, and you became mine.”
Ezekiel 16:8 (ESV)

“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know the One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God . . .”
Martin Luther

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us God because He loves us.”
C. S. Lewis

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.”
Elisabeth Elliot

“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing. Not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. All does to yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
Martin Luther

“What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
The greatness of God not admired.
The power of God not praised.
The truth of God not sought.
The wisdom of God not esteemed.
The beauty of God not treasured.
The goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The commandments of God not obeyed.
The justice of God not respected.
The wrath of God not feared.
The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin.”
John Piper

“But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved. . .For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing, it is a gift from God.”
Ephesians 2:4-5,8 (ESV)

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”
Henri Nouwen

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one. . .wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will be unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
C. S. Lewis

“He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”
John Piper

“God does not regret saving you. There is no sin that you commit that is beyond the cross of Christ.”
Matt Chandler