L.J. Smith Quotes

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

God does not call those who are equipped, He equips those whom He has called.

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider.

The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing binding him.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

He who does not work, will not eat

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

If I read the newspaper I come out dirtier than I went in. If I read my Bible, I come out cleaner than I went in, and I like being clean!

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.