Quotes by Speakers - Page 129

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide
Bernard Kelvin Clive
None of us lives in isolation. We're in it together. And some conflict along the way is inevitable. But our highest priority, when all is said and done, has to be commitment to each other –- sticking together.
Steve Goodier
Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable of leading us to a brighter future. For (as Karl Menninger noted) what's done to children, they will do to society.
Steve Goodier
In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.
Gudjon Bergmann
Don't worry that you're being pathetic when you try not to get caught stealing a kiss from your spouse, or when you pray for a time when the kids are out of the house so you can make out on the couch, or when you consider a trip with your husband to the lawn-care section of Home Depot a hot date.No. You're not pathetic. You're in a blended family....
Kathi Lipp
Yes, love your family, and also love your friends. For some friends are truly family. Love the people in your life. Love them without measure. And don’t worry about spoilage. Potatoes spoil, people don’t spoil.
Steve Goodier
At the end of the day, your relationships with the people in your life will be greater assets than any material things. Take time. Be present. You'll thank yourself for it later.
Vironika Tugaleva
And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.
Anne Lamott
I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
Anne Lamott
Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones... Everything else is NOT a problem!
Samer Chidiac
Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.
Steve Maraboli
I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right.
Shauna Niequist
What you do is less important than the difference you make.
Tiffany Dufu
The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.
Bryant McGill
Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.
Julie Cantrell
Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else.
Reggie Joiner
Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.
Reggie Joiner
Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that’s why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.
Reggie Joiner
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.
T.F. Hodge
In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.
Shauna Niequist
I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.
Jennifer Allwood
Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.
Jennifer Allwood
Lord, I pray that you will let my talent bring JOY and BEAUTY to a world that sometimes is dark and discouraging.
Jennifer Allwood
Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.
Jennifer Allwood
My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry and mourn my average face?Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?Do I not sleep because I lose the race,Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?My mind is on a more important thingThat lifts my heart and makes my spirit soarI want to make the souls of people singAnd quiet down the mean and bullying roar.To help the wounded girls replace the scarWith the right to be exactly who they are.
Nancy N. Rue
Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.
Jason Evert
There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of itself, Christian. Christian work is any kind of work, from cleaning a sewer to preaching a sermon, that is done by a Christian and offered to God. This means that nobody is excluded from serving God. It means that no work is "beneath" a Christian. It means there is no job in the world that needs to be boring or useless. A Christian finds fulfilment not in the particular kind of work he does, but in the way in which he does it.
Elisabeth Elliot
Freedom, wholeness, and true success can only be found when you are living a praying life. That means walking so close to God that He can keep you away from danger and guide you where you need to go
Stormie Omartian
Prayer is a law of the universe. As God has ordained that certain physical laws should govern the law of this universe, so He has ordained the spiritual law. Books simply will not stay put on the table without the operation of gravity - although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to stay. Certain things simply will not happen without the operation of prayer, although God could cause them, by divine fiat, to happen. The Bible is full o examples of people doing what they could do and asking God to do what they couldn't do. In other words, the pattern given to us is both to work and pray.
Elisabeth Elliot
Unforgiveness is a strategic "design," craftily implemented by you enemy to "outwit" you, to cripple your effectiveness in prayer and your power to stand against him victoriously. Which is why, if I were your enemy, I would do everything possible to keep you from forgiving anyone and everyone who's done you any wrong.
Priscilla Shirer
We have taken the holistic message preached in the Old Testament and New Testaments and reduced our message to the entry point into the Kingdom.
Landa Cope
Today I'm aware of all the times I have said no to opportunities God has placed before me because I think I'm not rich enough, equipped enough, talented enough, strong enough, or crazy enough to say yes. All the times I have mistaken good things for bad. All the times I have allowed the opinions of an ignorant majority to guide my thinking instead of looking to Jesus and his heart in the matter. I wonder how many times we, his children, choose a comfortable no over a terrifying yes - the kind of yes that will lead us to the only place we should ever long to be: in the arms of Jesus.
Heather Avis
He does not want a girl who trifles with Christianity. He wants a woman who is radically given to Christ. He does not want a girl who prays tepid, lukewarm prayers. He wants a woman who lives in defiance of the powers of Hell. He does not want a girl who is self-adorning with the latest fashions and trends. He wants a woman who is adorned with the inner jewelry of Christ-given holiness. He does not want a girl who dishonors and belittles her parents. He wants a woman who honors the authorities God has placed in her life and serves them with charity and gladness. He does not want a girl whose Bible is an accessory to her wardrobe. He wants a woman whose hunger and thirst is to know the Lord, and who diligently feasts upon His Word. He does not want a girl whose tongue is a deceptive weapon of selfishness. He wants a woman whose words drip with the honey of the name of Jesus.
Leslie Ludy
You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.
Jason Evert
Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.
Karen Burton Mains
...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
Elisabeth Elliot
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Shaunti Feldhahn
It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.
Shaunti Feldhahn
We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.
Wayne Cordeiro
A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.
Shaunti Feldhahn
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
Elisabeth Elliot
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.
Joyce Meyer
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
Joyce Meyer
If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.
Chuck Black
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
Matthew Kelly
Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.
Joyce Meyer
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
Joyce Meyer
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.
Joyce Meyer
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.
Brennan Manning
I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.
Gina Greenlee
The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we mayfeel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.
Gina Greenlee
What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.
Gina Greenlee
What do you resist examining up close?How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?
Gina Greenlee
Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.
Gina Greenlee