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“But our ongoing struggle with sin in motherhood does not surprise God. He’s not shocked that you and I aren’t farther along. And you don’t need to be either.”

“Spiritual transformation is a group project.”

“Because motherhood is exposing.” 💯

“Live up to what you have already attained. So by all means, live in the light of righteousness, determined to glorify God with your life. And live in the light of honesty, free to admit where you regularly fall short of his glory. But most of all, live in the light of the gospel, the good news that frees us from shame and to the pursuit of holiness.”

“Our limits narrow and expand with our seasons. But wisdom allows us to recognize a change in capacity and respond accordingly.”

“But one day soon, man will walk across the soil of the lunar landscape, and that will be a sign of our progress. In a time when it doesn’t seem as if we’re making much progress anywhere else, this, ladies and gentlemen, is a sign of tremendous possibility. And that, Otis Bottom, is perhaps the best answer to your question. They will find possibility there.”

“Heartbreak is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control, of holding in our affections those who inevitably move beyond our line of sight.”

“That’s the journey from the top of the tree to the bottom. Jesus moves from God to surrender to servant to human likeness to ordinary humanity to death to cross.”

“The way up is down. We soar like eagles because Jesus stooped low like a treecreeper.”

“Your Sunday morning gathering of everyday people may seem ordinary in isolation, but the invisible realities that hold it together are astounding. This is the invisible church. Listen carefully and you may hear the murmuring wingbeats of the saints.”

“The vulture removes the toxicity of death.”

“What do you need from your friends, Pierce?” Hawkes said. “To wait, to go, or to come?”

“As I’m sure you’ve read in the papers.”

Question: Ought I read the papers more than I do? Answer: Likely.
However: Books.

I love Emma.

“Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.”

“People need to experience the love of God as they are led into the mission of God. If they don’t feel loved, they will likely not let anyone lead them anywhere.”

“a secular age is one in which the eclipse of all goals beyond human flourishing becomes conceivable; or better, it falls within the range of imaginable life for masses of people.”

Secularity says that the objective of living is to lead a good life here and now; after that there is nothing else.

“Of all creatures, you should know that the darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is the pinprick of light is not long in coming—and finer for the great shroud that surrounds it.”

“I tell you old friend, I’d rather be stuck here in a Strander burrow than blowing smoke rings in Glipwood, where the Fangs spit and howl and kill our spirits. At least we’re here because we choose to be. We’re here out of bravery and not cowardice.”

“The Throne Warden protects more than the High King's flesh. He protects his soul by reminding him at every turn what is good and noble and true in the world. The Throne Warden protects not just the king but the kingdom as well. It is his job to remember and to remind.”

Over the course of the years they had been developing and flying the solid rocket motors, [they] had slowly expanded the parameters of what they regarded as acceptable risk in the joints. Incrementally, they had begun to accept as normal problems that deviated dangerously from the original design standards set for the boosters-and the seals that constrained the seething power of their volatile propellant in flight.

“Yet NASA officials had long ago learned that they could disregard such quantitative number crunching when it proved inconvenient:…”

“WE JUST GOT INFINITELY SMARTER.”

“[They have] ceased to believe in hell. And so they create hell for innocent men and have no fear that they themselves will ever face condemnation.”

This is so good 🤩

“This was the first moment that Frau Anna had shown her heart in any way. Gone was the veil of secrecy. Franz could see that there was something in the love this woman had for her husband that somehow enhanced her beauty.”

(From page 179) “Only Christianity can both warn us to avoid sexual sin and welcome us back in after it.”

“When we become convinced that sexual brokenness or trauma will forever define us, we idolize sex or trauma over God’s healing. The story of Christianity is better than that.”

(From page 178) “Pornography is not empowerment. It is rampant human degradation. Turning away does not mean we respect privacy, it means we ignore the abuse of precious image bearers.”

“You are an embodied human soul, dignified not because of what you can do but because of who God made you to be. Nothing we can create will ever outdo or replace what God created. That is good news.”