Glimpses of Grace Quotes

“Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus’s perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“We need faith to trust that God doesn’t merely “know what’s best for us,” but that he is what’s best for us no matter what our circumstances are.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“If we aren’t clear on what the Christian gospel is, then what is at stake is not merely a harmless misunderstanding but eternal life and death.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“Murder is an attempt to blot out the image of God here on earth. Unrighteous anger against someone made in the image of God is an offense to the Creator. When we minimize the offensiveness of our sin, we are attempting to diminish the holiness of God.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“God is a good Father, and he never, ever considers for even one moment letting us remain satisfied with anything less than himself, because he is the most satisfying treasure in the whole wide world.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“Seeing the brilliance of the cross and embracing its message are at the core of how God wants to work in our mundane to bring glory to himself.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ’s righteousness becomes mine. That’s grace.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“We ought to consider our home managing “as the creation of a living organism that nurtures the peace of Christ and the righteousness of God.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.”
― Gloria Furman, Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

“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