"If we are going to grow in grace, we must stay aware of being both sinners and loved children in Christ. We need a high and due sense of our sin before God and a deep and profound sense of our union with and acceptance in Christ. In the end, it’s the joy and wonder of the gospel that will change you permanently."
— Timothy Keller
Source: “Blemishes in Christian Character, Part 3: Change and Grace” (timothykeller.com, 2013)
Gospel, failure, grace
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"The greatest curse of this boat population is opium. To see how it is ruining the country is a most sad and sickening sight. If the Christian people of England did but know it, could but see what we see, they would to a man lift up their voice against it. Young men of between twenty and thirty completely enslaved by it, their will powerless to break it off, the conscience of its wrong settling them in dead despair. ... God only knows the evil this cursed traffic is working in this poor country."
— David Hill
Source: Letter to his father, April 25, 1875; in W. T. A. Barber, David Hill, Missionary and Saint, 3rd ed. (1899), p. 138