Quotes by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

God never encourages self-reliance.

I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.

We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now -- not later, once we get it together but right now in all the messes weve made.

Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.

God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

And we neglect the glorious gospel when we fail to recognize his preeminence. How frequently we forget that everything is for him and about him. We forget that he is to be first, in our honor and in our worship. Whenever the gospel slips from our conscious thought, our religion becomes all about our performance, and then we think everything that happens or will ever happen isa bout us. When I forget the incarnation, sinless life, death, resurrection, and ascension, I quickly believe that Im supposed to be the unrivaled supreme, and matchless one. Its at this point that Im particularly in need of an intravenous dose of gospel truth. He is preeminent.