Holy Hygge Quotes

“Let's not waste another minute complaining about the weather. Let's just learn to put on better clothes.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hygge favors the ordinary and familiar. It is unpretentious and imperfect and encourages satisfaction is everydayness. This attitude of gratitude helps them ignore the urge to reach for more. Many Danes quickly admit that having too much of anything undermines its value. Extravagance begins to feel exhausting and overwhelming when it happens all the time. Simple pleasures, on the other hand cultivate contentment.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Whether you realize it or not, every message you allow in has the power to influence your thoughts and decision-making.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“thrifting helps me prioritize people over property.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“hygge is a mindset—a way of making the mundane and necessary tasks of life more meaningful and beautiful.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“We can’t add or detract from it, making an idol fashioned to our liking. We don’t need Jesus and fill-in-the-blank. All we need is Jesus. Full stop.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“How can we have instant access to anyone at any time with just a simple tap of an app and yet feel so completely alone? Could it be we have replaced friendships with “friends”? Genuine love for “likes”? The common bond built over a shared meal around a table with a “shared” meme on a tablet? While the blame for our loneliness can’t be solely placed on the digital devils we carry around in our pockets, the correlation between the decrease in our face-to-face interactions and the increase in our feelings of isolation and abandonment are worth noting. Because it prioritizes”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hygge is just a temporary fix. It's a lifestyle Band-Aid that will help create a home in the short term. True and lasting comfort, though, can't be tablescaped or found in some twelve-step Scandinavian formula. The perfect blend of coffee can't cultivate true contentment. There's no flannel blanket big enough to cover deep soul ache. A long walk in the woods won't change a life for the long haul. Reshaping an atmosphere can never permanently reshape a heart. But it can help, especially when paired with the hope of Jesus.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hyggelig hospitality doesn’t preclude tidying up or putting your best foot forward. It just means you don’t have to feel the need to sterilize your life and wipe out every evidence of brokenness from your home. It”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“He satisfied physical needs before He met spiritual ones, and in the end, the former almost always paved the way for the latter.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“The Lord’s Table made us one in our need and freed us from the bondage of our sinful appetites.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“The plight of widows, orphans, and sojourners (foreigners or strangers, as some translations suggest) was bleak in ancient cultures. They lacked the familial or tribal status to provide for and protect themselves. This law was God’s way of directly providing for the physical needs of the marginalized. In a broader sense, it foreshadowed the provision He would later extend to us, the church—foreigners of the faith, alienated from God.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“He will fully restore your brokenness by buying it back with the blood of His Son. He doesn’t just cover it, He redeems it. Let this promise be a balm to your wounded and weary heart. If He’s measuring your sorrows, that means they are measurable. They won’t last forever.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“He is the God who bends down to listen, who inclines His ear and wants to hear not only your hallelujahs but also your hurts (Ps. 116:2).”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Although at times I’ve felt strangled by the struggle, I can now look back and see how much I was formed by it. I can see how God used all of it to produce good fruit in my life.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Forgiveness, however, puts justice in the right hands. It gives all the responsibility of retribution to God. You no longer have to bear the burden of someone else’s sin. Forgiveness is your one sure path to freedom.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Where God is in your loss matters more to a doubting and cynical world than where God is in your plenty. ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Throughout the New Testament, you’ll find examples of how He showed up in the middle of less and provided abundantly more.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Americans have gone from an average of 3.2 close friends to 1.8, and 40 percent of our neighbors have fewer than one confidant in their lives.6 He went on to say that Americans used to be able to disagree with one another and still be friends because we were friends first. But with our collapse of social capital—of neighbors gathering on the porch or chatting over the backyard fence—cultural polarization has become an epidemic in this country, creating a great divide between races, classes, and genders. One obvious byproduct of this relational separation is loneliness.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hospitality requires too much work. Create a guest list, send invitations, plan a menu, make a playlist, shop for groceries, design a tablescape, unearth and polish the fancy dishes, wash and press the table linens, chill the dessert, prepare the meal, dress for the occasion, light the candles, wash the dishes, do the mopping, “Keep-a busy, Cinderelly!”—perhaps this is the list that churns in your head every time you think about hosting others in your home. If so, no wonder you’ve stamped “Too much work” over the whole thing. That list is nearly as long as the tax code and would take more than a pack of animated mice to help you complete it. Might I offer you a word of encouragement I hope will dowse the hot flames of frustration that surround your attempts at hosting? Unless Victorian-era aristocracy has suddenly made a comeback in your neighborhood, you might be making hospitality harder than it needs to be. In chaining yourself to a lengthy list of to-dos, you may inadvertently lose sight of the whole point of hospitality: to welcome the stranger. Don’t make the experience about you, make it about them. Remember, Leviticus 19:34 kind of hospitality leads with ’āhaḇ love. It chooses service over performance, present over perfect.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Start by freeing up parts of the other six days in order that your Monday yes doesn't equal a Sunday yes when commitments unexpectedly have to be pushed on to your day of no.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Christian women are especially susceptible to the soul-jaundicing effects of hustle. We work under the reckless notion that our cheeks needs to be flushed in heaven from the labor we’ve done here on earth. We are rest-avoidant because, at some point, some well-meaning someone had us all believe that the central aim of our lives is to be useful to God, but it’s not. We’re meant to glorify God. That’s our purpose. The end.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“So often, when we purchase something, we only think about the cost of buying it. But what about the cost of owning it?”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hospitality, thriving relationships, well-being, a welcoming atmosphere, comfort, contentment, and rest—these are the markers of hygge. But they’re also qualities seen in the first Garden home and exhibited by Jesus.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“Hygge gives you full permission to light the candle, use the good dishes, and wear the expensive perfume because it recognizes that now is always the right time for simple pleasures. Use it, or get rid of it.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS*”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“A half-truth is just as dangerous as an outright lie, for it gives you a false sense of security, making you feel you’ve covered all your bases and checked all the boxes, when in reality, its bedrock is sinking sand. Yet hygge can have a place in the life or home of a Christ follower. In the same way a favorite devotional book does not replace your time in God’s Word but merely helps to set your gaze in the right direction and offer practical application to what you’re learning in Scripture, hygge can be a kind of companion for making a home where people can feel their way toward God and find Him (Acts 17:27). When viewed correctly, hygge can be a physical tool that reflects your spiritual life and invites others into a relationship with Christ.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow