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“We don’t have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn’t make it so.”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“For some people the remark, “You’re just like your mother [or father],” is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God’s grace in our lives is the observation, “You’re just like your Father.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Anne Stories (Anne of Green Gables, #1-3, 5, 7-8)

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“The body might be engaged in the most base drudgery, but always the mind can be thinking on whatever is lovely, pure, noble.”
― Julie Klassen, The Girl in the Gatehouse

“My kids don’t need to see a supermama. They need to see a mama who needs a Super God.”
― Sarah Mae, Desperate: Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe

“The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ.” ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place.”
― Lori Hatcher, Joy In the Journey: Encouragement for Homeschooling Moms

“The depths, the floods of life, all the Lord’s waves and billows rolling over us, have one main purpose – to drive us back to his word.”
― Kelly Crawford, Devotions, Advice & Renewal for When Motherhood Feels Too Hard: Daily Devotions for Moms

“Justification is a word that simply means that our record is both “just as if we had never sinned” and also “just as if we had always obeyed.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

“Anything that ties us to the world rather than drawing us closer to God is worldly.”
― Francena H. Arnold, Not My Will / The Light in My Window

“to read a great story is to begin to learn how to live one.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Caught Up in a Story: Fostering a Storyformed Life of Great Books & Imagination with Your Children

“You and I have all the power in the world to doubt and no independent power at all to believe. So if you are living by faith, don’t proudly pat yourself on the back as if you did something great. No, raise your eyes and your hands toward heaven and thank God for gifting you with the desire and ability to believe.”
― Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional