God in the Whirlwind Quotes

“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know God, it will generate the discipline that we need to pursue this, because we will want to know God more than anything else. If this is not our strongest motive, we will find ourselves with multiple, alternative, and competing foci.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Being transformed also means being unconformed.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“As Jonathan Edwards observed a long time ago, we act on our strongest motive. If our strongest motive, our deepest desire, is to know God, it will generate the discipline that we need to pursue this, because we will want to know God more than anything else. If this is not our strongest motive, we will find ourselves with multiple, alternative, and competing foci. These will inevitably distract us.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“God waits on us to admit him so that he can make his love real. That is how so many people think. And this is how much religion outside of Christian faith has thought about God’s love, too.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Our world is being shaken to its very foundations. Instead of offering great thoughts about God, the meaning of reality, and the gospel, there are evangelical churches that are offering only little therapeutic nostrums that are sweet but mostly worthless. One even wonders whether some current churchgoers might even be resistant were they to encounter a Christianity that is deep, costly, and demanding.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“However, there is a proviso here. Scripture will prove sufficient if we are able to receive from it all that God has put into it.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Una vez, equivocadamente pensamos que nuestra propia cautividad era una libertad. Igual y erróneamente, también consideramos el servir a Cristo como una pérdida. Pero la verdad llegó a resultar exactamente lo contrario de lo que habíamos pensado antes.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“Sin el conocimiento de Dios por parte de quienes adoran, sin una fe activa, sin reverencia, sin gratitud en el adorador, incluso las mejores formas de adoración simplemente caen por su propio peso.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“sobre todos los enemigos cuya obra y carácter son oscuros. Él espera ahora hasta que todos estos enemigos sean puestos bajo sus pies. Entonces, su conquista en la cruz resonará por todo el cosmos y esa “edad”, que para nosotros aún está por llegar, vendrá de hecho con todo su esplendor.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“Podemos, y deberíamos, distinguir entre la justificación y la santificación. Pero no separar la una de la otra. Que haya quienes afirman haber nacido de nuevo y al mismo tiempo no muestran evidencia de su renovación interior, o de haber sido desarraigados de la vida pasada y reubicados en una existencia enteramente diferente, es una farsa y un escándalo.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“No está ante nosotros para ser utilizado. No está ahí suplicándonos poder entrar en nuestro mundo interno y satisfacer nuestras necesidades terapéuticas. Estamos ante él para oír su mandato. Y su mandamiento es que seamos santos, lo cual es algo mucho más grande que ser felices.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“En este contexto, nos encontramos con la gracia de Dios en conexión con el evangelio, y esa verdad del evangelio se aprehende solo por fe. Y esta entrada en la redención está acompañada por una vida de fe, de andar diario con Dios, recibiendo la verdad de su Palabra, creyéndola y actuando en base a ella. Es así como mostramos nuestro amor por él.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“La santidad de Dios y su amor se encuentran, siempre y en todos sitios, inseparables, porque pertenecen igualmente al mismo carácter absolutamente perfecto y glorioso.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“Nosotros, por tanto, vemos en Cristo todo lo que Adán debió ser, pero que nunca fue. Cristo recogió la urdimbre de humanidad que Adán había hecho caer y la llevó a su plenitud completa.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.”
― David F. Wells, Dios en el torbellino: Cómo el amor santo de Dios reorienta nuestro mundo

“That is why we must come back to our first principles. And the most basic of these is the fact that God is there and that he is objective to us. He is not there to conform to us; we must conform to him. He summons us from outside of ourselves to know him. We do not go inside of ourselves to find him. We are summoned to know him only on his terms. He is not known on our terms. This summons is heard in and through his Word. It is not heard through our intuitions.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“There come those times in a nation’s life, Os Guinness has written, when its people rise up against the founding principles of their own nation. This is one of those times in America. It is far more dangerous than any terrorist attack. It is, in fact, “a free people’s suicide,” as he puts it in the title of his book. Why? Because what holds the republic together has never been simply the Constitution and our laws. The law is an exceedingly blunt instrument when it comes to controlling human behavior. There are many things that are unethical that are not illegal. Most lying, for example, is not illegal but it is always unethical. Our criminal and civil laws can control only so much of our behavior. It is virtue that does the rest. And that is precisely what is being eroded in this self-oriented, self-consumed culture.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“In the one, we find in ourselves the resources to make the journey to God. In the other, there is no journey except God provide its means and take us by the hand to its end. The one, then, is all about self-assertion albeit clothed and hidden in noble religious language. The other is about grace, and that grace can work only as the self is not simply mortified, or disciplined, but dies. In one, there is self-seeking; in the other, there is self-abnegation.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Those who begin below, as so many do today, assume that God’s love is whispered first in their inner senses, that it is part of their nature, that it is part of creation. And they assume that it becomes real to them when they experience its therapeutic benefits.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“Today, we think that each person must find his or her own way of being spiritual, something that is comfortable to that person; each spirituality is particular to each person.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World

“There are a surprising number who get their spiritual uplift week by week only from the comfort of their own living rooms or from their computers. They never go to church. Well, they “go” to church but do so in their own way.”
― David F. Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World