8s “Luther preached that there was nothing important for a person than to see that he or she could contribute nothing whatsoever to one’s own salvation. We can be fully accepted and counted legally righteous in God’s sight through faith in Christ, […]
Tim Keller on joy in suffering
11s The grief and sorrow drive you into God. It is just as when it gets colder outside, the temperature kicks the furnace higher though the thermostat. Similarly, the sorrow and the grief drive you into God and show you the resources […]
Simone Weil on Affliction
It is sometimes easy to iver an unhappy man from his present distress, but it is difficult to set him free from his past affliction . . .