Angie H ( Angie Slowly Reads)’s Reviews > Respectable Sins > Status Update

" The damage to God's glory by our sin is determined not by the severity of our sin but by the value of God's glory....Every sin we commit, regardless of how insignificant it seems to us, is an assault on His infinite glory." - pg 134

"It is never okay to be angry at God. Anger is a moral judgment, and in the case of God, it accuses Him of wrongdoing. It accuses God of sinning against us by neglecting us or in some way treating us unfairly. It also is often a response to our thinking that God owes us a better deal in life than we are getting" -pg 123

Phew! Tough stuff.....

"There but for the grace of God go I"

"If we are morally upright, and especially if we are believers who seek to live morally upright lives, it is only because the grace of God has prevailed in us. No one is naturally morally upright." Pg 87

Psalm 51:5

"And if, as Jesus so clearly stated, loving God with all our heart, soul, and mind is the greatest and first commandment, then failure to give thanks to God as a habit of life is a violation of the greatest commandment. " - pg78

'Acceptance means that you accept your circumstances from God, trusting that He unerringly knows what is best for you and that in His love, He purposes only that which is best. Having then reached a state of acceptance, you can ask Go's to let you use your difficult circumstances to glorify Him.

...move from an attitude of a victim to an attitude of stewardship." - pg 71-72

"Ungodliness describes an attitude toward God, while unrighteousness refers to sinful actions in thought, word, or deed" - pg 48

"Ungodliness may be defined as living one's everyday life with little or no thought of God, or of God's will, or of God's glory, or of one's dependence on God" -pg 48

" I am a great sinner, but I have a great Savior." - John Newton

"The truth is, there is never a day in our lives when we are so "good" we don't need the gospel."