" 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