“It is precisely the Christian’s utter frailty which lays him open to the
experience of the all-sufficiency of God’s grace, so that he is able to rejoice
because of his weakness- something that astonishes and baffles the world,
which thinks only in terms of human ability.”
-Philip Hughes

“Our future- who we are becoming, where we are going- matters more
than our past- where and who we have been. Our future has more power
to name us and define us than our past. Consummation swallows origins.
Destiny, not history, is the ultimate ground of our identity. How does a
prostitute named Rahab, a Moabite outsider named Ruth, an incestuous
schemer named Tamar, and adulteress named Bathsheba, end up in the
birth line of Jesus? Because in God’s economy the person we become, not
the person we have been, is the person we truly are.”
-Mark Buchanan, Things Unseen, 162