Quotes about Life

It's never hopeless and you're never helpless if Immanuel has invaded your life with his glory and grace.

Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

The central focus of the Bible is not a set of practical-life principles. No, the central theme of the Bible is a person, Christ. If all you and I had needed was a knowledge and understanding of a certain set of God-revealed principles for living, Jesus would not have needed to come.

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.

Creation points us to the Creator, but it can never give us what the Creator can give.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.

Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.

Faith is a deep-seated belief in the existence of God that radically alters the way you live your life. Now, here's the rub. Faith isn't natural for us. Biblical faith is counterintuitive and countercultural. So we even need God's grace to have faith to believe in the existence of the One whose grace we so desperately need. And the grace is yours for the asking again today.

It really is possible to live in a state of Advent schizophrenia, where you celebrate the birth of the Messiah while actively denying your need for his birth, life, death, and resurrection.