The Sinner/Saint Devotional Quotes

“We enter into the house of the Lord because we have been declared residents of his house. It is for Christians, it turns out, the only place in this world where we can take comfort in knowing it is the only house where we truly belong and are accepted unconditionally, warts and messes and scars and all. The gospel belongs to Jesus Christ. The gospel is Jesus Christ given “for you.” When he comes to us, we do not have to worry about what it means to us because when our Lord speaks to us, he does what he says, declaring us forgiven of all sin, blessed, and firmly set as a resident in the house of the Lord.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“Scandalous grace how sweet the sound that saves wretches like us.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“The psalms are God’s words to us that become our words back to God.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“Christ’s greatest work among us will always be splashed with the blood of the cross—messy and dirty and confusing.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“What the Lord promises, he faithfully delivers (v. 4). And no power in all the world (not mine, not Satan’s, not the nations’) can overcome it: “The LORD brings the counsels of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the people—the counsel of the Lord stands forever” (v. 11).”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“The church should bring joy to the world (vv. 1–2). As salt and light, graced people bring hope to a disgraced world.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“The glorious news of the gospel is that even in my restless, anxious wondering, God looks at me and sees His Son’s perfect record of saying, “Not my will but yours be done.” I am no longer considered the petty, small-minded, suspicious child concerned about my next meal. I am now the Son who knew that the Father’s love would sustain. I am forgiven for my lack of faith. I am forgiven for my lack of trust. I am accepted wholly in the Beloved.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“though you sin ten times ten thousand times, you can never out-sin the work of the cross.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“Justification is God’s work, at Christ’s expense, to free you from sin, death, and hell. It is justice done to sin and grace given to you. And God wanted to do this for you.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“We must put away a whitewashed Christianity that says that God simply forgives because He is nice, kind, loving, gentle, etc. That is not how forgiveness works. God does not simply ignore our sins, turn a blind eye to them, and perpetuate injustice. No. God has forgiven you for Christ’s sake. It was because Jesus paid your debt, took your penalty, and ransomed you from sin and death that you are forgiven.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“when we fail, when our faith falters, Jesus’s perfect record stands in our broken place.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“Our strength to resist, wrestle, and fight against sin and death is not our own. Likewise, our good works, our holiness, our all is from God. The Lord provides our good works to us. He is our holiness because Jesus is all in all for us.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“It is no longer I who struggles with sin and death but Christ in me who bears it all for me so that the life I now live, I live by faith in the One who faces off with it all for me.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“On the cross implanted in Zion’s soil, Jesus ingested every drop of just wrath the High King of heaven had for all of our fist-shaking defiance.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“For you, my friend, Christ is your only strength. He alone brought you back from death into his new life. His sacrifice was complete, not yours. His work was pleasing to his Father, not yours. His steady ground is where you now stand, not your own. No matter what comes, little or big, insignificant or tragic, mountains crumbling and floods raging, this peaceful City of God is your sure and solid promise. You will not get there by cleverness or wealth. You will not find it by avoiding the wickedness that crumbles all around. You are promised this everlasting city through death: death and destruction of the earth around us; death and destruction of your own desires; death and destruction of the holy Son of God, who perfectly tottered, sinlessly shook, righteously melted into the sea for you. God truly is your only refuge. Christ Jesus alone is your strength. Therefore, you will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“In the confusion and sadness and depression, you will not fear because God, who will never be shaken, is your refuge and our strength.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“God’s word is always a promise to us, a revelation of God’s will, intentions, and faithfulness. It is not just informative, giving us interesting information. It is primarily covenantal, expressing God’s relational integrity and love for us.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms

“The Psalms are emotionally bipolar, from one high to the depths of despair.”
― Daniel Emery Price, The Sinner/Saint Devotional: 60 Days in the Psalms