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Loving this book.
“Time devoted to our children should not be spent marking time, but as an investment in one of our greatest ministry opportunities.”

I need to remember this line for parenting. :)

“My dear young lady,” said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp expression at both of them, “there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.” “What's that?” said Susan. “We might all try minding our own business,” said he.

“Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; take yourself in hand, talk to yourself, make yourself look up from your problems to the God of the gospel; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.” Pg 260

“It is God’s prerogative to give good things, things that we have need of, and if in our own wisdom, we ask for things that do not come under these headings God, like any good parent, reserves the right to say, “No, not that; it wouldn’t be good for you—but have this instead.”… Often he gives us what we should’ve asked for, rather than what we actually requested.” The Lord knows best!

“Scripture does not allow us to suppose that because God is love we may look to him to confer happiness on people who will not seek holiness, or to shield his loved ones from trouble when he knows that they need trouble to further their sanctification.”

“It is one thing to go on the lonely way with dignified heroism, but quite another thing if the line mapped out for you by God means being a doormat under other people’s feet… Are you ready to be not so much of a drop in a bucket—to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you saved? Are you willing to spend and to be spent…? (Re: Phil 2:7)

“Who else but Bible-believing Christians can make redemptive sense of tragedy?… Who else knows that the sin that will undo Me is my own, not my neighbor’s, no matter how big my neighbor’s sin may appear?”

“When He talks of their losing their selves, He only means abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I’m afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His, they will be more themselves than ever.”

I love that. We are more truly ourselves the more we become like Christ.

“Your best opportunities to bestow on your children will always be the moments when you least feel like it.”

“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turns, without milestones, without signposts.”

That awkward moment when you think “Oh this will be a quick read” and then you get super convicted after chapter 3… I’ll be taking it slower. :)

"For the Christian there is only one course… The Christian can't be anything but confrontational. Once you know the truth, this means following it, upholding it, and if necessary suffering for it. I can't act any differently. I love freedom and would very much like to be free with my family and friends. But I don't want to act against my conscience. What good is freedom to me if I can't call God my Father?”

“I should expect every day to encounter circumstantial evidence of God's commitment to my dying; and I must seize upon every God-given opportunity to be conformed more fully to Christ's death, no matter the pain involved.”

“The Bible does not explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obedience and hence for God’s satisfaction.” 🔥🔥

“AccordingScripture, God deliberately designed the gospel in such a way so as to strip me of pride and leave me without any grounds for boasting in myself whatsoever… if I am to experience deliverance from sin, I must be delivered from the pride that produces it. Thankfully, the gospel is engineered to accomplish this deliverance.” Thank the Lord for this!