Spencer

“God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.”
― John Piper, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

“We are children of God who are both passively connected to God and actively encouraged to seek His presence. These dueling images of abiding frees us from both legalism and apathy. I am kept secure in Christ through no work of my own, yet God calls me to actively participate in using the resources provided to me through this union.”
― Wendy Alsup, The Gospel Centered Woman: Understanding Biblical Womanhood through the Lens of the Gospel

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Jesus says the evidence of our understanding of God's grace toward us is our grace toward others”
― Wendy Alsup, The Gospel Centered Woman: Understanding Biblical Womanhood through the Lens of the Gospel