The God Quotes
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants
It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.
To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.
Choose God, his word, prayer, and spiritual vitamins. As you fight the battle with these tools, you will also be simultaneously choosing your victory.
We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.
We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.
The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.
In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.
Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.
Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God’s plan and purposes for your life.
Learning never stops till the very end of life's existence from whoever and at whatever time or situations.
The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.
Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.
It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.
The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need.
I don't know where to go from here, So I crawl back inside me, AndTurn the lights off.
As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake.
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.
The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace
The trust I have...for some people...comes down to how well I know them, and then it's a matter of my trusting them to do what I think they're going to do.
Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.
As we become more mature in faith, learning to trust that God is capable of all things, we will see God as bigger and bigger every time we encounter Him.
Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.
Do not get discouraged if you feel He is not answering your questions or speaking to your situation. He will. Trust Him in the wait. He is at work.
I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.
We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.
We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23
Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.
Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.
God does not call us to something without equipping us to do it. He faithfully gives us everything we need to walk with Him into the abundant life.
An awesome friend is everything.
As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.
Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.
If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.
It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact
A sinner’s humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God’s forgiveness again and again.
Often what prevents us from seeing beauty in the outside world is the fact that we fail to see beauty in ourselves and other people. Forgiveness is the key that can unlock this door for us.
In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.