“You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,” she told me all the time.
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“We can rest, because he worked. We can lay down our prideful busyness, because he laid down his life. We can keep coming back to him in the midst of our failures, because he keeps all his promises to us.”
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
― Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“O my Lord! strengthen my faith so in the Father's tender love and kindness, that as often as I feel sinful or troubled, the first instinctive thought may be to go where I know the Father waits me, and where prayer never can go unblessed. Let the thought that He knows my need before I ask, bring me, in great restfulness of faith, to trust that He will give what His child requires. O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.”
― Lord, Teach Us To Pray
― Lord, Teach Us To Pray
“By God’s grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.”
― Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
― Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
“The power of Christ in the life of the believer does more than merely restrain the desires of the flesh: It puts new desires within him. Nature determines appetite. The Christian has the very nature of God within (2 Peter 1:4), and this means he has godly ambitions and desires. He does not need law on the outside to control his appetites because he has life on the inside!”
― Be Complete (Colossians): Become the Whole Person God Intends You to Be
― Be Complete (Colossians): Become the Whole Person God Intends You to Be
“He does not show Himself to us in order merely that we may know, but in order that, knowing, we may do, and, what is more than either knowing or doing, in order that we may be.”
― The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon
― The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon
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