Even Better than Eden Quotes

“The Spirit at work in us is replacing our desire to dress in a way that impresses or seduces with a desire to dress as Paul instructed women in his letter to Timothy, “in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control” (1 Tim. 2:9). Rather than making a fashion statement with our clothes that will cause heads to turn in our direction, we want to make a fashion statement with our character that will cause heads to turn in Christ’s direction.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“Do you think, perhaps, that God has let you hunger for whatever it is you are so hungry for so that you might become more desperate for him, more convinced that he is the source of what will fill you up? Do you think he might want to retrain your appetites, redirecting them away from this world, this life, even this age, so that your anticipation of the age to come might begin to shape your perspective on whatever it is you lack?”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“That flicker of discontentment that Eve had entertained in the garden must have become a raging fire after she and Adam were exiled into the unsubdued wilderness that surrounded it. But the chronic discontentment that now dogged her also proved to be a grace. It proved to be a constant reminder that complete and lasting contentment exists only in the life that was promised to them had they obeyed.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“This desire we all have to be at home with those we love must be one aspect of being made in God’s image, because the story of the Bible is the story of God working out his plan to be at home with his people. The great passion of God’s heart, as revealed from Genesis to Revelation, is to be at home with his people in a place where nothing can separate or alienate or contaminate, enjoying a face-to-face relationship of pure joy with no goodbyes. In fact, one of the most amazing things about the story we read in the Bible is that it is much more about God’s desire to dwell with his people than about his people’s desire to dwell with him. Doesn’t that seem a bit upside down? Shouldn’t we be the ones who have a desperate desire to live in his presence?”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“The weekly Sabbath was intended to jog Israel’s collective memory concerning God’s sufficiency and supply in the past and his promise concerning the future. They were to remember his work of creation as well as his work of redemption. It was to serve as an ever-present sign of loving relationship between God and his people.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“For some of us, the idea that we will not be married to the person we have loved dearly in this life sounds as if it just can’t be right. But evidently marriage as we know it is uniquely for this age. That doesn’t, however, mean that there won’t be rich relationship in the age to come. In fact, our relationships with those we have loved will be deepened, as sin will no longer infect or inhibit our connections to one another. John Piper writes, “There will be no marriage there. But what marriage meant will be there. And the pleasure of marriage, ten-to-the-millionth power, will be there.”9 Heaven will be rich in relationship—with each other and with the One we love the most—our glorious Bridegroom. In one sense, we’ll all be married—and to the same Groom! The shadow of temporary human marriage will have given way to the substance—the eternal marriage between Christ and his bride. And this will be the happiest marriage of all time.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“In the earthly ministry of Jesus we see him doing what the first Adam should have done. Adam was supposed to exercise dominion. Jesus exercised dominion over demons, over nature, over sickness, and even over death. By taking upon himself a human nature, and living in that human nature in true righteousness and holiness, Jesus demonstrated for us what it means to be truly and fully human.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“To eat of it was to assume the right to decide for oneself what is good and what is evil rather than depend on God to define good and evil. This prohibition was essentially a call to faith, a call to let God be God rather than usurp his authority. Whereas the tree of life was to be a reward for loyalty, this tree was about to become a test of loyalty.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“Here is the supernatural experience that God has promised: the power of Christ coming down to rest on you, to fill you up, so that you can trust him when the worst thing you can imagine happens to you, so that you can be genuinely, if not yet perfectly, content even if he does not fill up the empty place in the way that you have longed for. At least not yet.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“Taking hold of the glory of the future transforms your sense of shame now. A settled sense of the security of the future soothes your fear of death now. A growing sense of identity as a citizen of heaven changes how you see yourself now. Truly taking in the love relationship we’re going to enjoy forever warms our hearts toward Christ now.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“The power of the gospel still brings life where there is death, hope where there is despair, beauty where there is brokenness.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“Como sabemos que estamos siendo revestidos de la justicia de Cristo y que despertaremos de la muerte con las vestiduras de la inmortalidad, no hace falta que nos obsesionemos con nuestro guardarropas o con las señales de envejecimiento. No tenemos por qué vivir bajo el peso de la vergüenza ni con temor a la muerte. Podemos confiar en que Dios nos está vistiendo de santidad, belleza y gloria.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“Amigo, tienes un enemigo.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“En vez de suponer que Dios salvará a nuestros hijos, le rogamos que los salve. Oramos para que nuestros hijos estén en enemistad con el maligno y reconciliados con Dios. Oramos para que no sean engañados por las mentiras del diablo, ni se rebelen contra el Señor. Oramos para que reconozcan la voz de su Salvador cuando los llame, para que sean revestidos por Él con la justicia de Cristo. Oramos para que se aferren a la gracia prometida en medio de la maldición. Oramos para que, cuando Cristo vea a Su descendencia, vea el rostro de nuestros hijos.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“Mientras que Adán se escondió de Dios con vergüenza por su fracaso, Jesús pudo decirle a Su Padre: «Yo te he glorificado en la tierra; he acabado la obra que me diste que hiciese» (Juan”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“No sofoques esos deseos de ser amado de esa manera; dirige tus deseos al único que puede amarte de esta manera para siempre.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“En vez de marcar tendencia con nuestra ropa, de manera que todos nos miren al pasar, queremos marcar una tendencia con nuestro carácter, que haga que todos miren a Cristo.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Mejor que el Edén: Nueve formas en las que la historia bíblica cambia todo sobre tu propia historia

“My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“The tree of life is not simply a thing of the past. It’s a promise for our future.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“Taking and eating what was prohibited by God led to judgment for Adam and Eve, but taking and eating of God's provision of Christ leads to salvation for all who will feast on the fruit of the cross of Christ.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“The intensity of fleeting pleasure is surpassed by the intensity of lingering shame and regret.”
― Nancy Guthrie, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story