Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Quotes

• “We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't le...”
• “Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are w...”
• “The Lord teaches us of His grace and the Gospel through difficult children. We learn what it's like to love like He love...”
• “We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, an...”
• “Because we don't know the state of our children's souls, and because they might simply want to please us by praying to b...”
• “We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely a...”
• “God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and...”
• “Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the ...”
• “in my heart is rooted in lovelessness and thanklessness.... By contrast, every truly holy act, including even the inner ...”
• “The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and H...”
• “We need to remember how what Christ has already done transforms who we are right now -- not later, once we get it togeth...”
• “Idolatry, like all sin, is devastating to the soul. It cuts us off from the comforts of grace, the peace of conscience, ...”
• “We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the hu...”
• “I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.”
• “I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.”
• “Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.”
• “Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.”
• “God never encourages self-reliance.”