From Good to Grace Quotes

“We see it everywhere: Do something great! Follow your dreams! Make a difference for the kingdom! Be missional and in community! For the gospel-confused, that too often translates into: I’m not doing enough, what I’m doing isn’t making a difference, and I’ve got to create my own and my neighbor’s own and my children’s own and everyone’s own life transformation.”
― Christine Hoover, From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel

“In that moment, standing at the washer and dryer, I wasn’t grumbling to myself, as if the gifts of family and ministry weren’t a blessing, or as if these opportunities were just tasks to me. I simply had a salient moment where I sat with the whole of my life in front of me and questioned if all those numbers and tasks and activities and relationships added up to my life counting for something.”
― Christine Hoover, From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel

“Jesus taught something dramatically different. He taught that the world is broken and that no one will escape the fruits of this brokenness, not even he himself, the Son of God.”
― Christine Hoover, From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel

“When others seek our counsel, we can focus on external rules or we can focus on the heart. When we offer them words of wisdom, we can give them advice and a checklist or we can exhort them to seek out the Lord's direction and obey His voice. When we have opportunity to minister in Christ's name, we can put our confidence for ministry in ourselves or we can put our confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit and the power of the Gospel.”
― Christine Hoover, From Good to Grace: Letting Go of the Goodness Gospel