Spencer

“We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“We need assurance that there is a God who is sovereignly ruling over our journeys and will one day put everything right.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Home: How Heaven & the New Earth Satisfy Our Deepest Longings

“If I am fully known and not rejected by God, how much more ought I to extend grace to my neighbor, whom I know only in part?”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“Who is God? He is our Father. What has he done? He has loved us by sending his Son, Jesus, to die for our sins. Who are we? We are the dearly loved children of God—God’s family. If we believe this, what do we do? We love one another as brothers and sisters in the same way God has loved us.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Saturate: Being Disciples of Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life