Understand A Person Quote by David A. Powlison

“Here is the sweet paradox in how God works. He blesses those who admit that they need help: The poor in spirit are blessed…

— David A. Powlison

“Second, Jimmy lived in a universe that featured him. Everything was all about one all-important, all-offended being. Every scene in his film, every page…

— David A. Powlison

“Motives are your core values and commitments, what you base your identity on.”

— David A. Powlison

“His mercy is not niceness. His mercy is not blanket acceptance of any and all. Mercy to us costs him—the blood of the Lamb.…

— David A. Powlison

“Mercy is an entirely different way of reacting to offenses, to things we think are wrong. Think about this: mercy is not a non-reactive…

— David A. Powlison

“First, notice the weather. “Our Father . . . makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on…

— David A. Powlison

“By instinct, habit, and enculturation, all of us tend to think of counseling as a human-with-human interaction. But in fact a human-with-Savior interaction must…

— David A. Powlison

“To actually make peace, where open wrong, hostility, and destruction now operate, is the hardest and best work in the world. It involves saying…

— David A. Powlison

“Motives are not only the fine china of plausible desires and honest hurt. They are also the steel and high explosives of all-consuming self-will.”

— David A. Powlison

“Every one of us has a hard time changing. It’s hard to think straight about anger. It grabs you and it’s got you. The…

— David A. Powlison

“There’s something high and mighty about anger, when distilled to its basic elements. Anger goes wrong when you get godlike. Your desires become divine…

— David A. Powlison

“None of us are as bad as we could be (though some people come close). None of us are as good as we should…

— David A. Powlison