Experiencing the Trinity Quotes

“Your suffering is real, but those who trust the Lord will find life even in the midst of death.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“To say that God is love is not to romanticize his character or soften his holiness. In fact, the love of God means very little apart from his holiness and justice. The love of God is magnified in that he loves the unholy and pours out blessings upon those deserving just punishment for sin.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“At times God will delay granting you relief in order to draw you closer to himself. He might want to teach you just how helpless you really are and how all-sufficient he really is. Sometimes God will allow you to suffer for a season to test and strengthen your faith.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“In Christ you are chosen, reborn, justified, adopted, and sanctified. You are indwelled by his Spirit, protected by his power, and guaranteed to be perfected in glory. You are a member of his kingdom and an heir of the world to come. In Jesus you are perfectly and eternally loved. Christ became poor to give you all of this. What else do you need?”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Perhaps the reason your faith is small, your love is weak, and your obedience is sparse is because you have lost sight of the love of Jesus for you.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“The great hope of the Christian is not heaven, which is often conceived of as a disembodied existence in the spiritual realm. The great hope of the Christian is the resurrection.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“There is a great difference between personal reformation and spiritual transformation. The former is merely a choice, or a series of choices, that leads to a change in behavior. The latter is a work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of a Christian that accomplishes character change—a transformation of the soul.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Of all there is to know in this world, of all the mysteries and complexities of life, the knowledge of God and his ways are the most critical.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“The Spirit’s work of revival does not come about when God’s people practice inventive or radical exercises; it comes through the normal means of grace God has given his people.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Holding indifference, apathy, or bitterness toward the church sets you against what God holds dear.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“If you want intimacy with Jesus, if you want to experience the blessing of his presence, you will find him among his people. The church that Jesus builds is where he delights to be.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“His suffering was for you. But Christ’s suffering in your place does not save you from suffering. It rescues you from divine condemnation, but not from the world’s condemnation.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“So, when you find yourself discontent and miserly, consider the poverty of Jesus and the riches you have received because of it.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Do you know the man Jesus? It makes you a little uncomfortable to even read that, doesn’t it? The man. You immediately want to say, “He’s fully God as well as fully man!” Yes, indeed. But there is a kind of deficiency in your christology that sees much of Christ’s deity but little of his humanity. And if you disregard the humanity of Jesus Christ, you will find yourself with half a Savior.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Instead of suffering fruitlessly through your trials, be sure to keep your eyes fixed on your heavenly Father who has good purposes in all you experience. Check yourself for sin that has not been dealt with. Lean on the grace and goodness of God, and you will find relief.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“For when you suffer, you can be sure that one of two things is happening. Either God is teaching you to rely on his grace and sufficiency through your pain, or he is teaching you to return to his grace and sufficiency through your pain.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“You experience two kinds of guilt. One is the reality of your culpability before God. You have transgressed his law—you are guilty. The other is the sense of your corruption. You feel guilty. The first kind of guilt is true of you because everyone is a sinner. But not everyone knows the second kind. Until a person knows his guilt, he cannot know pardon. Until you feel the bondage of your guilt, you cannot find the freedom of forgiveness. In this sense, guilt is not your enemy.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“The key is to look beyond what you can see with your eyes to what God has told you is true. Only then can you begin to see things as they really are, not just as they appear.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“God provides what is best, and sometimes what is best is that which you would never choose. Sometimes that which is painful for a time will yield a greater blessing later, even if you must wait for it until after death.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“To say that God will always provide for you is not to say that he will give you every earthly thing you desire. It’s not a guarantee that you will receive what you need for a long and comfortable life on earth. It is the guarantee that wherever you are, God remains present; that whatever you go through, God has a sovereign purpose; and that whatever your affliction or difficulty, God will provide you with the grace you need to persevere in faith and find satisfaction in him.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Look to your holy God. Behold his glory. He is more than you can comprehend, and what he has shown you of himself is enough to forever change you. Behold his glory. The whole earth is full of it, but does his glory fill your mind and heart?”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Trusting in Jesus means believing that your only hope to stand before the face of God and experience mercy is found in the life, death, and resurrection of his Son.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Believing in Jesus is not choosing a new religion, but seeing your own sin and just condemnation before God.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“Whatever towers before you is small before your all-powerful”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“There is never a moment of your day when God is inactive. He is there and he is involved.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God

“I am thankful that I have learned that belief is easy when life is easy, but when life is confusing and painful, faith will prove itself to be either rooted in Jesus Christ or resting on religious sentiments.”
― Joe Thorn, Experiencing the Trinity: The Grace of God for the People of God