Matt Rise

“You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing total contentment, joy, and confidence in your everyday life with God.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You

“Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of”
― Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

“There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own.”
― Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

“The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The”
― Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew