Alive in Him Quotes

“We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“The course of this world is pervasive, keeping the captives quiet with the morphine of temporary pleasure at the expense of their eternal souls.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“There is not another way that the one body grows other than self-sacrificial giving.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“God turned spiritual zombies into tasters and seers of the riches of Christ—​​​to the praise of his glorious grace.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“The single most mind-blowing, life-altering reality of being in Christ is that we no longer need to hide ourselves from the presence of the Lord God; in Christ we may walk with God in perfect fellowship now, and ultimately forever in the garden city that is to come (Gen. 3:8).”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“We don’t exist for ourselves but for others. Gifts are given to us to be given to others. Gifts are for the benefit of all, not the personal fulfillment or boasting of the gifted.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything