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(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.”

“Modern technology use is our Tower of Babel because it tries to make us gods. And it’s killing us instead.”

“Because of the work of Jesus, God uses hard things to make us stronger.”

“…for many, and especially many parents, modern life has tricked us into thinking that the good life for us and our children is to avoid suffering. It is not.”

“Grace means that at the end of my patience, there is more patience.”

“Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.”

(In the context of parenting young children): “Sleep deprivation is torturous when meaningless, but it becomes spiritual formation when offered in love.”

“Feasting is the call to do the hard work of joy, for the easiest thing in the world is to be serious and cynical, but the harder (and more Christian) thing to do is fight for laughter and levity.”

“…fasting is often the beginning of seeing myself more clearly, which is what makes fasting so wonderful. In that space of lack and frustration, I have to turn to God, for there are no other coping solutions left.”

“Obsessing about the brain and mental health leads to an excessively inward life consumed by self-care, while focusing on the brain as something you can garden in order to live a life of love leads to the outward life God made us for.”

Giving this another shot…

“Disappointment is inescapable but necessary; a misunderstood mercy and when approached properly, an agency for transformation…”

‘Honestly? God bless the police, but it’ll be quicker all round if we just show them to Elizabeth.’

“Better plus better will one day equals to the best.”

This took me a bit to get into, but it’s giving The Flatshare vibes??
Also the insults from Lorna are top notch: “More red flags than a communist parade.”

“He’s my courage to be still.”

“Seeing this ultimate significance of marriage as pointing to our union with Christ is vital. Nothing gives marriage more dignity, but nothing better protects us from investing ultimate significance in it.”

“Blood, they say, is thicker than water. But the blood of Jesus is thicker still. Better than a lifelong legacy is an eternal one.”

“Hard to be both happy and afraid… But fear can lead to courage.”
“And courage can lead to peace.”

As soon as the violin left his hand he went back to being the gangly, awkward young man. Though never again totally that for the people who had heard him play.

Clara hadn’t simply painted a woman, hadn’t even painted a feeling. She’d created a world. In that one image.
That was a masterpiece.

“I can tell you though,” said Clara, “they’re great works of art.”
“How can you tell?” asked Gamache.
“Because they provoke a strong emotion. All great art does.”

“…to be known by God is to be loved by Him. And love isn’t hard for Him. We tend to believe that because we still struggle with sin, therefore God must still struggle to love us. We fear He must have to work so very hard to love someone who is so very unloveable. But this isn’t the picture we get from Scripture. He’s better at love than we can ever hope to be…”