Good News for Weary Women Quotes

“True obedience must be fueled by love, and love occurs only in hearts that have been warmed by the knowledge of God’s love for lawbreakers like us.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Whenever a society, church, movement, family, or individual loses sight of the centrality of the gospel of grace, a different religion will always fill the void. Something will hold the gravitational center; there will always be a polestar around which we will orbit.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“yes, I am sinful and flawed, but I am also loved and welcomed. It doesn’t really matter what other people say or do. God loves me, even in my brokenness, and that’s all that matters.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“We don’t have to try to justify ourselves anymore. We don’t have to try to make Him smile. He is already smiling.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Live your life transparently so other women will see that Jesus loves the weak, the weary, the wounded, and the sinner, and perhaps they, too will be emboldened to stop faking it.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Given the conflicting messages we receive about what it takes to be “good enough,” it's not surprising that Christians are as plagued by depression and anxiety as the general population.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“My friends, if even God’s law, written directly by His own finger and full of so much glory that it transfigured Moses’ face, is a “ministry of death” to those who try to fulfill it, then these to-do lists, steps, and pieces of ludicrous advice will not produce the fruit we’re hoping for. They will not build or protect the family or God’s people in the world. They will not glorify Him. They will not make Him smile. They will only breed pride, despair, exhaustion, anger, self-pity, hypocrisy, addiction to introspection, and even abandonment of the faith.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.   MATTHEW 9:12-13 People who foolishly think that they have all their spiritual disciplines together, who assume they’re able to obey all the commands (and then some), have a significant problem being merciful with those who struggle. In fact, it was Jesus’ adherence to the true meaning of the law and His disdain for the Pharisees’ add-ons that made them hate Him.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Yes, there are passages in Scripture—especially in Paul’s epistles—about women’s roles. But it is biblically untenable and soul crushing to tell a woman that the only worthwhile activity she can do is to birth children and serve a husband and a family. This mind-set also creates an idol out of the family structure, making success as a homemaker/mother the most important vocation in a woman’s life. And although this is a high calling, it should not trump our first and foremost calling: to believe in Christ.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice

“Here are just a few of the unnecessary burdens women are often made to bear. Single women are made to feel that they are “less than” other women; women who are gifted for a career are made to feel that college or a career is a waste of time and that these women are resisting “God’s best” for them. Women whose interests, giftings, and opportunities do not fit the mold of post-industrial-revolution suburbia are disdained by other women who have been gifted with husbands, fruitful uteruses, and inclinations that better portray what has been elevated to the greatest expression of godliness for a woman: the stay-at-home mom. And stay-at-home moms are weighted with additional pressures: it’s not enough to be home; they must also serve on every committee, live in a perfectly decorated (and always clean) house, and have perfectly behaved children.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Good News for Weary Women: Escaping the Bondage of To-Do Lists, Steps, and Bad Advice