Angie L.

“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian

“But there comes a time when it takes more faith to fall apart with Jesus than to stay strong enough to stop it from happening.”
― Bonnie Gray, Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest

“God is going to reveal me as a flawed human being as fast as he can and he’s going to enjoy it because it will force me to grapple with real intimacy.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

“This is how faith changes us. It is not simply that we are trusting Jesus to help us become more holy. No. It is that we are more and more allowing the holiness of Christ to be freely expressed in us. Rather than trying to be more righteous, we actually experience His righteousness flowing through us. Rather than us trying to be more loving, we experience His love flowing through us into the people around us. Rather than us trying to have more holy desires, we experience the holy desires of Jesus. This is what sanctification looks like. This is what it means to drink deeply of Jesus. The more deeply and frequently we drink, the more fully His life is expressed through us.”
― Alan Kraft, Good News for Those Trying Harder