Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
Gloria Furman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.”
“What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?”
“For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.”
“What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.”
“I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.”
“The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus’s perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.”
“Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.”
“it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies”
“We need faith to trust that God doesn’t merely “know what’s best for us,” but that he is what’s best for us no matter what our circumstances are.”
“The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.”
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