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Marti Wade
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“The gospel presents both high ideals and all-encompassing grace. Very often, however, the church tilts one direction or the other. Either it lowers the ideals, adjusting moral standards downward, softening Jesus’ strong commands, rationalizing behavior; or else it pulls in the boundaries of grace, declaring some sins worse than others, some sinners beyond the pale. Few churches stay faithful both to the high ideals of gospel and its bottomless grace.”
― Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
― Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.”
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.”
― One Man's Meat
― One Man's Meat
“And then it hit me. Don’t we claim to know how the game of life ends? And if we do, shouldn’t that affect the way we interpret and respond to the Enemy’s short-term victories and temporary advances? If our sins are forgiven and our destiny assured, if we are joint heirs with Jesus and certain he’s coming back to set all wrongs right, then despair and panic over the latest court decision, or even the steady erosion of morality in our culture, hardly seem like appropriate responses.”
― Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture
― Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture
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