Quotes about Life

There are times when you are tempted to wonder if it's all worth it. But in all this, God is still at work, molding you into the likeness of his Son. It is, in many ways, a multifaceted life of hardship—the hardships of life in this fallen world intersecting with the restorative hardships of grace.

You can lose it all, but nothing can take life from you, because what defines life is simply not for the taking.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

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.