43 Quotes by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

True Christianity is not a program of self-improvement; it’s an acknowledgment that something more than self-improvement is needed.

Do you love me with an all-consuming devotion that rules out all other loves?

The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it’s like to love like He loved. It is there, in our personal upper room, where we learn to wash the feet of those that are betraying us. It is there, kneeling before our rebellious children, that the real power of God is demonstrated.

Any obedience that isn’t motivated by his great love is nothing more than penance.

Like us, our children crave the blessed benediction: “You are good!” But the Bible says that because we are not good, those words no longer apply to us. We’re not good.

Since the fall of the human race, we’ve been alternately telling ourselves that we are good, that if we try hard enough we’ll be good enough, or that being or that being good is an impossibility, so we should just give up and have fun.

Faith, then, is simply a believing that there is a God who loves us, in spite of the poison of sin coursing through our soul.

We’re very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

We need the encouragement, correction, and loving involvement of others who are willing to risk everything for the sake of the beauty of his bride.