“Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.”
― Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life
― Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life
“The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.”
―
―
“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Jwhite’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jwhite’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Jwhite
Lists liked by Jwhite






















