Sick of Me Quotes

“The peace of God doesn't promise to change our circumstances, it's meant to redefine them.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“When God leaves a hole in our lives, it's likely because He intends for the hole to make us Holy.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Consider these differences: Self help depends on my efforts to get where I need to go, sanctification asks God to do what only He can, and then equips me to do what I can in response. Self help focuses on my definition on healthy, helpful, good and wise. Sanctification allows scripture to define the virtues I ought to pursue and display. Self help believes my life is my own, sanctification says that my life is God's and He determines my purpose and path. Self help asserts that knowing my worth and value gives my life meaning, but sanctification moves me to find my worth in what Jesus paid for me. Self help pursues good things, sanctification chases God things. Self help strives to make my life easier, sanctification is submitting to a life that may be harder, but better. Self help has me at the center, sanctification has God at the center. Self help's end game is my happiness, sanctification's goal is my holiness.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“But when our expectations aren't anchored in the eternal, or informed by scripture, we end up running after things that are fleeing and ever-changing. Self infused desires and the pursuit of the approval of others is like chasing the wind: ever-changing, difficult to pin down, and impossible to catch.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“I found that I can pinpoint my unmet expectations by looking at my very real frustrations. Life's disappointments usually expose us to our hearts expectations. It's hard to be disappointed by something we weren't hoping for.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Because our external relationships are almost always a reflection of our internal relationship with Jesus. A soul at war will sour relationships.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Yes, God calls His people to be separate. Separate is hard. But hard is good, and God is best.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Suffering is a significant part of sanctification. And like most of sanctification, suffering includes us but isn't about us.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“The shift of putting ourselves on the throne isn't this cosmic, Avengers style civil war. It's dangerously more subtle. For good Bible believing, holiness chasing people like us, the temptation isn't to abandon what we believe and turn our backs on God. The temptation is to pursue loving God and looking like Christ in our own strength. The temptation is to do all those right things, for all the wrong reasons. The danger is to love Jesus but somehow, simultaneously, make it all about us. To make holiness look a lot like happiness.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“Exhaustion breeds frustration. And you know what causes exhaustion? Self help. Self help revolves around rises and falls, and depends on me. How can it not be exhausting? A self help strategy to spiritual growth has lots of unintended, problematic symptoms. What we think will make us better, actually makes us worse.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“When our hearts turn from God, they always turn towards self.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation

“When we unseat the sovereign Lord, we always take His place. And friend, “self” is a terrible king. We trade supreme wisdom for limited knowledge. We trade benevolent rule for selfish ambition. We trade unrivaled authority for temporary control.”
― Whitney Capps, Sick of Me: from Transparency to Transformation