"Marriage is a flawed person married to a flawed person living in a fallen world. ... God decided to leave you and your spouse in this fallen world to live, love, and work because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that could not be done any other way."
— Paul David Tripp
Source: "The (Discouraging) Definition and Location of Marriage," Grace & Knowledge, Paul Tripp Ministries, February 2026
Marriage, script, conflict, grace
Views: 439
"Thus a Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a Christian. That is the effect of faith alone. … True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.""
— Martin Luther
Source: Concerning Christian Liberty (1520), Project Gutenberg edition
holiness, justification
Views: 457
"He who knoweth how to walk from within, and to set little value upon outward things, requireth not places nor waiteth for seasons, for holding his intercourse with God. The inward man quickly recollecteth himself, because he is never entirely given up to outward things. No outward labour and no necessary occupations stand in his way, but as events fall out, so doth he fit himself to them."
— Thomas à Kempis
Source: The Imitation of Christ, Book II, ch. 1 "Of the inward life" (tr. William Benham)
Silence, Rest in Peace
Views: 491
"A great degree of habitual wickedness may lay a man under an Inability to love and choose holiness; and render him utterly unable to love an infinitely holy Being, or to choose and cleave to him as his chief good. … When the occasion returns, the strength of habit overcomes and baffles all such opposition. In this respect, a man may be in miserable slavery and bondage to a strong habit."
— Jonathan Edwards
Source: Freedom of the Will, Part I, Sect. IV
free
Views: 471
"Resting can be an act of faith. It means you're waiting on God."
— Rick Warren
Source: Daily Hope with Rick Warren, "Wait Patiently on God's Timing" (April 15, 2023)
Rest, faith, control
Views: 458
"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."