If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be sure that He's got your ultimate happiness at heart. He's working to free you from your worries, not by giving… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
This is the freeing truth you can learn through your depression: You weren't created to love and worship anything more than you love and worship God; and when you do, you'll feel bad. God has made you to feel pain… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“The declarations of the gospel are unavoidably tied to the obligations of the Gospel.” — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Everything that isn't gospel is law. Let us say it again: Everything that isn't gospel is law. Every way we try to make our… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.” — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness. — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
![“Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith…” quote by Elyse Fitzpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/025/elyse-fitzpatrick-19135_doubt_unless-we-re-very-intentional-about-medi_259795.jpg)
