Jesus Is the Goal, Jesus Is the Prize // Natalie & Vera
"What if Jesus doesn’t want anything from you? What if instead, he just wants to be closer to you?" — Natalie Abbott
"What if Jesus doesn’t want anything from you? What if instead, he just wants to be closer to you?" — Natalie Abbott
"So these became for me my rule of life: I'm going to do Scripture before phone. I'm going to do at least one communal meal a day. I'm going to...
"All the gains—gaining Christ, being found in him, eternity with him—all of that, even suffering is on one side of the balance and all of our earthly, temporal gains are...
"It was my instinctive reaction to run back into the darkness...Whereas the more I know Jesus—the more I am in the Word, the more I am running towards the light—the...
"I wrote in [my journal] to the Lord, 'Would you wake me up?' I wanna be awake. I want this verse to be real—that I would live a life of...
"You can't gather up a bunch of darkness and put out a candle. But you bring in one candle, and it always beats the dark. Light is always stronger. Light...
"When the light of Jesus comes on in our dark hearts, the darkness must flee!"— Natalie Abbott
"Our feelings are important. But at the same time, we can't hang all of the weight of our being and our confidence on that, because they're going to vacillate, man....