“Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust… — Andy Crouch Blessing Copy Share Image
“I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments—only when I… — Andy Crouch Fatigue Copy Share Image
“To be Christian is to stake our lives on this belief: the only cultural goods that ultimately matter are the ones that… — Andy Crouch Christian Copy Share Image
“True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to… — Andy Crouch Faithful Copy Share Image
“The only biblical prosperity gospel is a posterity gospel—the promise that generation after generation will know the goodness of God through the… — Andy Crouch Christianity Copy Share Image
“If we are known mostly for our ability to poke holes in every human project, we will probably not be known as… — Andy Crouch Compassion Copy Share Image
“Stewardship means to consciously take up our cultural power, investing it intentionally among the seemingly powerless, putting our power at their disposal… — Andy Crouch Power Copy Share Image
“if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path.” — Andy Crouch Work Creating Copy Share Image
“The right question is whether, when we undertake the work we believe to be our vocation, we experience the joy and humility… — Andy Crouch Career Copy Share Image
“How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many… — Andy Crouch Life Copy Share Image
“If there is a constructive way forward for Christians in the midst of our broken but also beautiful cultures, it will require… — Andy Crouch Bible Copy Share Image
“The biblical record suggests that we need to rest not just one day a week but for longer times at longer intervals,… — Andy Crouch Creation Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus’ lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow… — Andy Crouch Christianity Copy Share Image
“The home is the place where worship of the true God starts: the place where we remember and recite God’s Word, and… — Andy Crouch Home Copy Share Image
“I am also practicing cello to wean myself from power and accomplishment, to place myself back in the posture of a learner,… — Andy Crouch Cello Copy Share Image
“So the best defense against porn, for every member of our family, is a full life--the kind of life that technology cannot… — Andy Crouch Children Copy Share Image
“I wonder what we Christians are known for in the world outside our churches. Are we known as critics, consumers, copiers, condemners… — Andy Crouch Christianity Copy Share Image
“What was missing, I've come to believe, were the two postures that are most characteristically biblical -- the two postures that have… — Andy Crouch Andy-crouch Copy Share Image
“A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.” — Andy Crouch Lethargy Copy Share Image
“Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus interrupts his agenda for those who have nothing to offer him but need everything from… — Andy Crouch Gospels Copy Share Image
“The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work for, and wait for it.” — Andy Crouch Change Copy Share Image
“The best way I know to define privilege is the ongoing benefits of past successful exercises of power.” — Andy Crouch Power Copy Share Image
“Grace is not an exemption from failure. It is, however, what makes it possible to sustain hope in the midst of failure.” — Andy Crouch Failure Copy Share Image
“Evangelism is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end: restoring the image bearers’ capacity for relationship and… — Andy Crouch Creator god Copy Share Image
“The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological solutions to our deepest cultural problems.” — Andy Crouch Failure Copy Share Image
“Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God’s original fruitful purposes.” — Andy Crouch God Copy Share Image
“All true cultural creativity happens at the edges of the horizons of the possible, so by definition our most culturally creative endeavors… — Andy Crouch Creativity Copy Share Image
“Hope for a life beyond this life, and a world of shalom beyond this world of injustice, is the greatest resource for… — Andy Crouch Christian hope Copy Share Image
“Disciplines are small and by themselves inconsequential (like the scales that professional musicians play every day), attracting no notice and deserving no… — Andy Crouch Discipline Copy Share Image
“Human creativity, then, images God’s creativity when it emerges from a lively, loving community of persons and, perhaps more important, when it… — Andy Crouch Creativity Copy Share Image
“The followers of Jesus will begin to demonstrate a new set of horizons for human life to their neighbors and even to… — Andy Crouch God Copy Share Image
“The Christian hope is not for a gradually improving world any more than it is for a fountain of youth. But Christian… — Andy Crouch Christian Copy Share Image
“We are continually being nudged by our devices toward a set of choices. The question is whether those choices are leading us… — Andy Crouch Art of living Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of a mature life, a life that can bear the weight of image bearing, is in many ways the continual… — Andy Crouch Discipline Copy Share Image
“The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power… — Andy Crouch Fitness Copy Share Image
“it is extraordinary how few Christians make any concerted effort to keep the commandment of sabbath rest. We have somehow twisted Jesus’… — Andy Crouch Christianity Copy Share Image
“Are we creating and cultivating things that have a chance of furnishing the New Jerusalem? Will the cultural goods we devote our… — Andy Crouch Christianity Copy Share Image
“In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose… — Andy Crouch Andy-crouch Copy Share Image
“Worst of all is when one encounters zombie churches. Because every church is built and sustained by volunteers, almost every church was… — Andy Crouch Church Copy Share Image
“In his indispensable book The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen boldly invites us to imagine ourselves not just in the… — Andy Crouch Books Copy Share Image
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