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Ruth Chou Simons QUOTES

Ruth Chou Simons QUOTES

1 " To that end, we are ALL worshippers. "Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is "

― Ruth Chou Simons , Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship

2 " Just because God does not remove the thorn doesn't mean He's not using it for our good and His glory. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

3 " To that end, we are ALL worshippers. "Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve." (Paul David Tripp). Our jobs, relationship, reputations, and treasure- these are just a few things that compete for our worship. We were made for one worship and one satisfaction, but our taste buds are skewed until our appetites are formed in and for Him. The question isn't whether we will use our everyday moments to worship because we will- in the midst of ordinary places, people, sights, sounds, joys, and pains. How we direct our eyes, minds, hearts, and hands in the everyday will determine whom we ultimately worship, and what we ultimately become. We were made to behold Him and be transformed in Him. The art of everyday worship is the journey from canvas to masterpiece. We all have an invitation to be transformed, one everyday moment at a time. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship

4 " I want you to know that finding God's grace laced through the seasons of your heart....

begins with RESTING in who HE is
builds by REHEARSING the truth He says about you
blossoms as we RESPOND in faith to those truths and
is sustained by REMEMBERING His provision "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

5 " Jesus' character--as our refuge, as trustworthy, as sufficient, as ever present, as wise, as merciful, as in control, and as sovereign Lord--breaks through the harsh cold of the season as He steps in to carry our burdens, reminding us that true rest comes when we rest in Him. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

6 " The biggest decision you and I face today may not be what we will do next, but whom we will trust. It's not warm feelings and wishful thinking we're told to put our trust in. We're to trust in the God who led His people into the desert so they might know the end of their power and the fullness of HIS provision. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

7 " The good life isn’t the absence of heartache; it’s the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn’t just work things out for our good—he is our good. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

8 " I restate what we see again and again in Scripture? The good life isn’t the absence of heartache; it’s the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn’t just work things out for our good—he is our good. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

9 " walked through times and seasons that felt like exile, God was always writing a story in my life that was more than I could imagine. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

10 " The enemy would have us so blinded by the pain of the thorn that we can't see the beauty of the rose garden. I've been there so many times.....so consumed by the discomfort that won't go away that I can't experience what fragrance of grace lies just ahead. Look past the thorn to how Christ is enough in the midst of it. His grace is sufficient for the thorn He chooses not to remove. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

11 " keeping score is trying another person in the courtroom of your mind and subjecting them to the law you’ve declared and the standard you’ve created. It’s counting their missteps and the ways you’ve covered for them again and again. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

12 " that we might live into everything that God purposes for us as grace-made daughters of God. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

13 " we can either wander aimlessly back into the whispers of inadequacy and shouts of condemnation or stand firm on the grace that both saves and defends us against the Enemy’s lies. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

14 " Cold orthodoxy, light without heat, was God's accusation of the Church at Ephesus in the book of Revelation. But the early church also often times embraced heat without light. It was a problem then and it's a problem now. You see without light or truth what we do will be left up to opinion, culture, and what feels right. That's the day in which we live. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

15 " how we seek to fix ourselves reveals what we really believe we need. This plays out even in the books we read and who we listen to for counsel. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

16 " The good life isn't the absence of heartache; it's the presence of God, by grace, in the midst of it. Our hope in the midst of hardship is that Jesus doesn't just work things out for our good - he is our good. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

17 " At the end of our days, when we cross over into glory, we'll have questions that won't seem to matter anymore, and earthly sorrow will pass away. But we won't bring along our resumes, and that stunning career accomplishment will look dingy against the white-hot glory of God's holiness. The number of boxes you checked off next to your Bible reading plan won't be your badge; the seal of the Holy Spirit on a surrendered heart will tell of your arrival. And in the presence of our Holy God, what will keep us from incinerating on the spot will be our safekeeping in the cleft of the Rock-- the covering of grace through the blood of Christ-- that shelters us now and holds us fast into eternity. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

18 " If someone offers you a prescription for what ails you, but the prescription leaves your condition unchanged, it usually means that something is not quite right about either the prescription or the diagnosis. If what we really need in order to stop feeling so worn out and pressed to perform at a certain standard is a better strategy, then why are the prescriptions not working? "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace

19 " When we believe and walk in the light of God's trustworthiness, we can hardly miss finding Him to be so. "

― Ruth Chou Simons , GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart

20 " Could it be that we are so worn and desperate for ways to better ourselves because we’ve missed the power, inherent in the grace of God, that eradicates self-improvement altogether? Is it possible that we keep trying to answer the wrong question— "Am I enough?" —when we’re really wanting to know: "Is God Enough? "

― Ruth Chou Simons , When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace