Inspirational Quotes

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily ours but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

~ Max Lucado

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

~ C.s. Lewis

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

~ Georges Bernanos

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

~ Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

...We always look for Christ amid magnificence. But ... Christ has a history of showing up amide the unlovely. Born in a dirty stall. Crowned with thorns. Died gasping on a shameful cross atop a jagged rise.We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty. It's like George Herbert wrote:'And here in dust and dirt, O here,The lilies of God's love appear.'We think magnificence is in short supply, that dust and dirt choke out the lilies. But that's not true and never was. Lilies may root in dirt, but they reach for heaven—and in the reaching, reveal their magnificence.—chapter 24

~ Philip Gulley

I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall,I only know God still is GodAnd watches over all.

~ John Gilbert

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

~ Ann Voskamp

If I didn't work as hard as I could, then I think it would be a bit like saying, 'God, thanks for giving me this ability, but I don't really care about it. I'm going to do something else, and I'm not going to work quite as hard.

~ Tim Tebow

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

~ Paul David Tripp

Personal ministry is not about always knowing what to say. It is not about fixing everything in sight that is broken. Personal ministry is about connecting people with Christ so that they are able to think as he would have them think, desire what he says is best, and do what he calls them to do even if their circumstances never get fixed. It involves exposing hurt, lost, and confused people to God's glory, so that they give up their pursuit of their own glory and live for his.

~ Paul David Tripp

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that “unless I believe, I shall not understand.

~ Anslem Of Canterbury

True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.

~ Gangai Victor

We don't want to live in the dark moods of imponderable mystery, but neither do we want to miss them altogether. they allow us to emerge from the tender sadness of the manger to sing with the angels in the skies above...

~ Robert J. Morgan

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

~ Paul David Tripp

The eye fixed on Christ sees clearly, succumbing to neither pride nor inferiority, because it is not concerned with the self at all.

~ Andree Seu World Magazine

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

~ Calvin Miller

Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.

~ Doug Batchelor

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

~ Robert Mcafee Brown

Just because the race is worth it, doesn't mean it's easy.

~ Melissa Bradley

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there.

~ Elizabeth Strout

God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

~ Mother Teresa

…when we really connect with who God is… we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine…

~ Shelley Hitz

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

~ Heather Hart

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

~ Robert J. Morgan

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself. 

~ Paul David Tripp

Life in Christ is like traveling on a metro link train, with a predetermined destination. You are not the driver, Jesus is, and God provided the route on this one time trip. He plotted everything, the date and the time of your travel and arrival. There will be stops and delays along the way, but remember this, at the bottom of a traffic light is always a green light.

~ Rolly Lavapie

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly.

~ Robert Mcafee Brown

The more familiar acquaintance we have with God the more do we partake of him. He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat, but he that stands by it has his colour changed. It is not possible that a man should have any long conference with God and be no whit affected. If we are strangers to God it is no wonder that our faces become earthy.

~ William Bramwell

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Jesus Christ suffered,to bear the sin of mankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever confesses his sins, shall obtain the mercy of God's grace.

~ Lailah Gifty

Jesus isn’t an afterthought only when we need help, but He should be our first thought. Our first friend. Our first listening ear. The first person we go to for advice. Jesus shouldn’t be our last resort, but the reservoir of strength that we draw from before we even begin.

~ Tiffany Webster

Men are often mislead by their fellow-men.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Holy Bible is the written code of holy teachings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Holy Scriptures are words taught by the Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's protection is our prosperity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The duty of a Christian is to obey Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no danger than doubt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita