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61 " What is the technical word that describes wronging God and others by being unloving? Sin. The word means something that wrongs a relationship. It’s different from mistake or error or failing. It describes a relational betrayal, not just a personal failing. Sin means to wrong God by betraying love for him. Sin means to wrong other people by violating love for them. Interesting, isn’t it? The things that naturally most outrage you, those things that most universally upset human beings everywhere, are the very things that the Bible labels “sin.” We aren’t often taught that “sin” is what you ought to get upset about—what you often hate automatically—because it’s what God always gets upset about. "
― David A. Powlison , Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness
62 " It’s no accident “Love is patient” comes first in 1 Corinthians 13. Patience isn’t very dramatic, but it counts. "
63 " Angry people always talk to the wrong person. They talk to themselves, rehearsing the failings of others. They talk to the people they’re mad at, reaming them out for real and imaginary failings. They talk to people who aren’t even involved, gossiping and slandering. But chaotic, sinful, headstrong anger starts to dissolve when you begin to talk to the right person—to your good Shepherd, who sees, hears, and is mercifully involved in your life. "
64 " Paul put the dynamic this way: God “comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1: 4). You can give away what you have received. And that is one of the ways that good comes out of evil, without ever insinuating that evil is anything but evil. "
65 " One of the effects of being marked by suffering is learning to value the future. Not all the crying or pain goes away now, but he will make all things new. "
66 " On the day you die, you’ll still be somewhere in the middle. But you will be further along. "
― David A. Powlison , Making All Things New: Restoring Joy to the Sexually Broken