posted by steve | on Life & Quotes & Gospel
Do you have a friend or loved one living in sin, yet professing to be a Christian? Or are you becoming hopeless about the sin in your own life? Then think of God’s relentless grace, and patiently trust in him.
Human sin is stubborn, but not so stubborn as the grace of God and not half so persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way. . .[We must never] forget that the center of the Christian religion is not our sin but our Savior.
- Cornelius Plantinga, Not The Way It’s Supposed To Be, p. 199
As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with unhurrying and imperturbed pace, so does God follow the fleeing soul by His Divine grace. And though in sin or in human love, away from God it seeks to hide itself, Divine grace follows after, unwearyingly follows ever after, till the soul feels its pressure forcing it to turn to Him alone in that never ending pursuit.
- Francis Thompson, Hound of Heaven
