Amber

“Exhaustion breeds frustration. And you know what causes exhaustion? Self help. Self help revolves around rises and falls, and depends on me. How can it not be exhausting? A self help strategy to spiritual growth has lots of unintended, problematic symptoms. What we think will make us better, actually makes us worse.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Consider these differences: Self help depends on my efforts to get where I need to go, sanctification asks God to do what only He can, and then equips me to do what I can in response. Self help focuses on my definition on healthy, helpful, good and wise. Sanctification allows scripture to define the virtues I ought to pursue and display. Self help believes my life is my own, sanctification says that my life is God's and He determines my purpose and path. Self help asserts that knowing my worth and value gives my life meaning, but sanctification moves me to find my worth in what Jesus paid for me. Self help pursues good things, sanctification chases God things. Self help strives to make my life easier, sanctification is submitting to a life that may be harder, but better. Self help has me at the center, sanctification has God at the center. Self help's end game is my happiness, sanctification's goal is my holiness.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“The peace of God doesn't promise to change our circumstances, it's meant to redefine them.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“But when our expectations aren't anchored in the eternal, or informed by scripture, we end up running after things that are fleeing and ever-changing. Self infused desires and the pursuit of the approval of others is like chasing the wind: ever-changing, difficult to pin down, and impossible to catch.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation