" He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more. He overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it" Charles Spurgeon
I read this quote in Ch. 2 of Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney. The Chapter is about the delight of loving my husband. For some reason this quote really stood out to me, because I think I am a perfectionist. So I can be really hard on myself and consequently really hard and critical of Mike (and others). Thus, I desire to preach the gospel to myself, so that instead of seeing other people's faults (which I seem to see quite clearly), I can remember mine and rejoice in the grace of the gospel!
This pic. was taken at the wedding in California that Mike played in. My 2 cuties :)
5 comments:
Excellent reminder Tina, thanks.
I love that quote!
Way to be!
(By the way, why don't you ever leave comments for me!?)
:-)
I need your email address again. You can send it to mine by clicking on the little envelope next to "remarks."
You must of called Ay for her 50th yesterday? We're good nieces! :-)
That's a great quote. Wow. I need to put that up in my new office I think.
Thanks, Tina!
Hi Tina! Your cousin Joanna here, isn't cyberspace AWESOME? I just started a blog because I thought it was so cool to keep tabs on other peoples lives, so here I found you, and we havent talked for like what, 15 years or something crazy like that. Now I don't have to ask Granny how your doing, I can find out for myself.
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