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When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace
Ruth Chou Simons
Top 10 Best Quotes
“walked through times and seasons that felt like exile, God was always writing a story in my life that was more than I could imagine.”
“The good life isn’t the absence of heartache; it’s the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn’t just work things out for our good—he is our good.”
“I restate what we see again and again in Scripture? The good life isn’t the absence of heartache; it’s the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn’t just work things out for our good—he is our good.”
“we can either wander aimlessly back into the whispers of inadequacy and shouts of condemnation or stand firm on the grace that both saves and defends us against the Enemy’s lies.”
“that we might live into everything that God purposes for us as grace-made daughters of God.”
“keeping score is trying another person in the courtroom of your mind and subjecting them to the law you’ve declared and the standard you’ve created. It’s counting their missteps and the ways you’ve covered for them again and again.”
“how we seek to fix ourselves reveals what we really believe we need. This plays out even in the books we read and who we listen to for counsel.”
“The only hope we have for feeling the freedom of a debt canceled and paid for, and believing we are no longer condemned, is to continually dwell and rest in the exceedingly greater power of God’s love to rescue us.”
“The holiness of God found us lacking. The mercy of God sent Jesus to bear the punishment we deserved. The righteousness of God declared us forgiven. The goodness of God reshapes us into His likeness. The love of God overcomes evil so that we might share in all that is Christ's.”
“The good life isn't the absence of heartache; it's the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn't just work things out for our good - he is our good.”
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