None Like Him Quotes

“When we apply the terms always or never to other people, we speak an untruth.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Just as my assurance of salvation rests in the fact that God cannot change, my hope of sanctification rests in the fact that I can.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Only one person does not change, and that is God.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“The God who was is the God who is. The God who is is the God who is to come. The God who is to come is the God who was.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“For I the LORD do not change” (Mal. 3:6). The author of Hebrews exults, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). James celebrates the goodness of the God “with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (James 1:17). He is immutable, not just unchanging, but incapable of change of any kind. The”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“The Scriptures speak of a God who does not change. Like the tallest mountain peak on the horizon, from generation to generation, God stands unchanging, immutable, anchoring the landscape of human existence as all else around him ebbs and flows, blossoms and withers, waxes and wanes. The Rock of our salvation endures”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“We look at the timing of events in our lives and think that perhaps, in at least a few instances, our timeless God has temporarily checked out.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“God of the past, present, and future, bending time to his perfect will, unfettered by its constraints. The past holds for him no missed opportunity. The present holds for him no anxiety. The future holds for him no uncertainty. He was, and is, and is to come.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“We live differently when we regard the future as a place we will go “if the Lord wills.” God does not owe me the seventy or eighty years of which Moses speaks in Psalm 90. Every year he gives is a gift, gracious and undeserved. Thanks be to God, not just for the years he has preserved me but for the years he has ordained for me, perfect in number and known only to him.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“We turn from the God-worship that should have resulted from seeing our need to the self-worship of believing we, like God, are self-sufficient. God, in his infinite wisdom, created us to need him. And he also created us to need each other.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Fasting reminds us quickly of our need, of our utter lack of self-sufficiency. It’s an express lane to relearning our limits.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“No need for love or companionship prompted the Godhead to speak us into being. He created us gladly and he loves us infinitely, but he does not need us.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Creating and sustaining all things, he is himself created and sustained by none.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Only God is self-sufficient. Our God is a God of no needs. What the Energizer Bunny purports to be, what the perpetual motion wheel aspires to be, God is in fact: a self-contained source of perpetual and perfect sustenance.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“How long will you strive with your Maker?”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“By all means, speak and act in a manner that points those around you toward the beauty of the gospel, but know that only God can create righteousness in the heart of another person. Find freedom in knowing that your human creativity is an echo intended to inspire worship of your Creator.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Whatever our sphere of influence, we convince ourselves that we deserve credit for creating that which we are called to steward.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Worshiping the creation rather than the Creator does not cause us to protect life or steward creation. It causes us to devalue life and consume creation.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Second, because God made everything, God owns everything. If everything created owes its existence to God, then nothing created truly belongs to another created thing. God does not own the cattle on a thousand hills because he purchased them. He owns them because he made them. Ownership implies rights and responsibilities. Because God owns everything, he is responsible for its care and has the right to do with it what he wishes. Because”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“He created because it is his very nature to create. He is not a creation-optional God.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“We humans must confess, “I am because he is.” Only God can say, “I AM WHO I AM.” God:”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“God speaks, and the universe leaps into being. From nothing he creates something. Unlike humans who create by rearranging what exists, God creates simply by the power of his word, and where there was once nothing, something miraculously appears.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“God is not only an expert on God. He is also an expert on me.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known. It is the joyful duty, the delightful task of his children to spend their lives, both this one and the next, discovering who he is.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Could it be that this process of growing in the fear of the Lord is a simple matter of relearning how to count? By learning to worship God in his immeasurability, by learning to take the measure of ourselves, our sin, our circumstances, and others accurately, we might at last come to say with David, “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“But to love self and others as limitlessly as possible, we must learn to die daily to our propensity to measure and compare our limits.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Rather than celebrate and revere his omnipotence, we seek ultimate power in our own spheres of influence. Rather than rest in the immutability of God, we point to our own calcified sin patterns and declare ourselves unchanging and unchangeable. Like our father Adam and our mother Eve, we long for that which is intended only for God, rejecting our God-given limits and craving the limitlessness we foolishly believe we are capable of wielding and entitled to possess. Even as the redeemed, we crave the forbidden fruit of rivalry.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Rather than celebrate and revere his omnipotence, we seek ultimate power in our own spheres of influence. Rather than rest in the immutability of God, we point to our own calcified sin patterns and declare ourselves unchanging and unchangeable. Like”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Our limits teach us the fear of the Lord. They are reminders that keep us from falsely believing that we can be like God. When I reach the limit of my strength, I worship the One whose strength never flags. When I reach the limit of my reason, I worship the One whose reason is beyond searching out.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“From cradle to grave, learning is essential to being human. Not only that, it is a human right. The United Nations views education as “a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights.” When we want to deny someone the full practice of their humanity, withholding learning from them is often a measure we employ. Women, the poor, even entire ethnic populations have been kept uneducated for the purpose of control or marginalization. To be human is to learn. To deny human learning is to set ourselves up as God, albeit a malevolent version of him.”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us