Lindsay Deans

“The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.”
― Paul David Tripp

“God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

“I can have hope when there is no circumstantial reason to have hope, because my hope is not based on what the stock market does, on what you think of me, on life turning out the way I want life to turn out.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“It is easily forgotten that the fellowship of Christian brethren is a gift of grace, a gift of the Kingdom of God that any day may be taken from us, that the time that still separates us from utter loneliness may be brief indeed. Therefore, let him who until now has had the privilege of living a common Christian life with other Christians praise God’s grace from the bottom of his heart. Let him thank God on his knees and declare: It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together