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"When you are with your kids, what's most important (what's best next) is different from when you are in the office. You need to make these shifts. Know what's most important right where you are and focus on that." (137)

"The way to go about handling our email, making appointments, running meetings, attending classes, and running the kids to where they need to go are not distinct from the everyday life of sanctification that God calls is to but are themselves a fundamental part of it." (67)

"This is why it is especially important for our approach to productivity to be gospel-driven, based first on the provision that God has given in his Son for our sins, not on what we do for God. For if the challenges we are encountering are ultimately a result of sin and the fall, then the only ultimate solution to them is in the gospel - God's solution to our sin problem." (59)

"In other words, getting things done, making ideas happen, and being productive are all ways to make a difference in people's lives. As Christians, we ought to care about this and be excited about it, for it is not only exciting in itself, but one of the chief ways God is glorified in our lives." (22)

"we are regularly less wise, more self-centered, even more pig-headed, and so less mature in our praying than we are aware, and again and again the divine answers are so crafted as to help us in these respects, where we have not realised our need for help, no less than in respect of the conscious need that prompted our petition in the first place." (57)

"The idea of hypercognition relates to the tendency within Western liberal cultures to isolate intellect, reason and rationality and identify these aspects of human beings as having particular moral and social significance." (81)

"The fact that it might seem strange and counter-intuitive to the reader to suggest that something like sin, love, or the presence or absence of God might be a central part of a medical definition of dementia makes the point, and indicates the boundaries of medical diagnosis and the limited intentions that such a process has. " (47)

"Autonomy and freedom are meaningful only as they relate to the contingency of human beings before God." (20)

"Over time, I learned that God didn't mind how strong or weak I was on any given day. He was the same. That was the true miracle--that my family lived and survived in the fiery furnace with God's provision, not that God ultimately rescued us from it." (127)