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1 " Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations. "
― Gloria Furman , Missional Motherhood: The Everyday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God
2 " The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time. "
― Gloria Furman , Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms
3 " God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children. "
4 " Because of the gospel -- the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners -- mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them. "
5 " Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope. "
― Gloria Furman , Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home
6 " What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone? "
7 " If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God. "
8 " Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child. "
9 " I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate. "
10 " Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. "
11 " When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood. "
12 " The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her. "
13 " it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies "
14 " My groggy disbelief is but a fraction of the weariness and soul heaviness that was felt by the women who arrived at a certain tomb before dawn and were not expecting to behold the risen Son.But because Jesus did rise from the dead, every glorious sunrise (even the early ones) marches forward and points us to look ahead to the day that is coming, which will be the end of darkness forever. "
15 " The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ. "
16 " By God’s grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life. "
17 " For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule. "
18 " We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge. "
― Gloria Furman , Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything
19 " Eve means “giver of life.” I don’t think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life. "
― Gloria Furman , Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church
20 " What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances. "
