“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.”

“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”

“Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.”

“I need God’s grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.”

“Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.”

“If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.”

“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.”