“Hope wants you to keep going. It wants to pull you forward, long enough so that you can someday take a look back at your story and finally see where the dots connected.”
“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”
— John Piper, Finally Alive: What Happens When We Are Born Again?
