Beth Quotes

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

You always have to go for bigger and better things.

Every game is an away game. Sometimes its hard to keep up with real life.

I love Adele so much and it's honestly not because we're both big.

Women have been funny for years.

We feel like there are way too many problems in the world, and there's nothing we can do to solve them. We forget how to be compassionate and start to feel hopeless.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

When we don’t take God too seriously, others don’t take our leadership too seriously!

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.

I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!

I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments