Some good quotes from "How People Change" by Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp.
Christian joy is not about avoiding life while dreaming about heaven. It is about taking an utterly honest look at all earthly life through heaven’s lens. There we find hope.
Christian friendships do not simply help us bask in the sunshine of God’s grace; they also help us to roll up our sleeves and strive after holiness.
Christianity’s change process does not revolve around a system of redemption but around a person who redeems.
Living in community pushes us to die to ourselves.
Trial can come in the difficulty of blessing. Riches can be as much a trial as poverty!
Trials do not cause us to be what we have not been; rather, they reveal what we have been all along. The harvest the trial produces is the result of the roots already in our hearts.
The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied… It is a fight for me to want nothing less than all that is mine in Christ.
To define grace as acceptance without acknowledging irresistible change is to deny the dna of grace. #lovewinssouls - Buck Burch
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