Better Quotes

“Friendship needs something to bind us together, a shared focus and destination. We can help each other on a journey only if we are going the same direction.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist,” Lesslie Newbigin once said. “Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. “Why do bad things happen to good people?” we might ask—the very question that betrays our misplaced assumption that we somehow deserve a good life.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“Time is currency, and Jesus Christ spent His entire life in this world for the ultimate redemptive purpose. He used His time so that we might have a relationship with the eternal and timeless God, allowing us in the process to discover the satisfaction for which we long.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“A hope that the grave can destroy is not a hope worth having, but a hope that can destroy the grave is.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“Our standing with God is not based upon how well each of us performs. Our standing with God is based upon how well Jesus performed—and He performed perfectly.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“There are no perfectly righteous people. We are all unrighteous. In fact, the really significant question is not why do bad things happen to good people, but why does anything good happen at all?”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“How are you getting on when it comes to building community? Are you still waiting for the church to build it for you, or have you worked out the role that you alone can play? It is up to us to take responsibility and allow people to be direct and honest in how we live our lives. The Bible says that your friendships are one way to measure your spiritual health. So how are you doing? Are you willing to give up some of your independence and convenience for friendship and community? Can you honestly say that you’re a friend? Can you say you’re in community right now?”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“You need to give several people in your life permission to point out sins and shortcomings. You also need to give people permission to support and encourage you. But are you holding everyone at arm’s length?”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“you will know how to respond rightly to the many seasons of life when you respond rightly to the God who created them.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“Think about it: How would you function over the next twenty-four hours if you already had everything you needed? How would your choices, reactions, behavior, and language be different if you knew beyond a doubt that there was nothing on this earth that you needed that you didn’t already have? We would be able to create without the need to compare, give without the need to get, and serve without the need for status.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“We all write our autobiographies long before we live our lives. Sure, we make some edits and revisions along the way, but even in our youth we quickly develop ideas of how things should go, how our lives ought to play out.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning

“If we allow the gospel to adjust the way we view our circumstances, our paths will improve.”
― Tim Chaddick, Better: How Jesus Satisfies the Search for Meaning