Quotes by Speakers - Page 40

Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addressed, taken possession of, known, acted upon, I have heard the Master. I put myself gladly, fully, and forever at His disposal, and to whatever He says my answer is yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
It’s only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us.
Stormie Omartian
It’s in those private times that we are refreshed, strengthened, and rejuvenated. It’s then we can see our lives from God’s perspective and discover what is really important. That’s where we understand who it is we belong to and believe in.
Stormie Omartian
Many of us suffer because we think that if people don’t really love us, then we will have to live forever without love. But it’s not true. The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.
Stormie Omartian
Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to move into the future God has for us.
Stormie Omartian
The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God’s love.
Stormie Omartian
What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.
Lori Hatcher
For Foucauld and the Little Brothers, life in the desert was not a flight from the world but rather a school of love and prayer to learn to enter more deeply into humanity. Their goal was to shout the gospel not so much with their mouths as with their lives.
Brennan Manning
The God who delivered Hezekiah and the children of Israel is the same God who is eager to act on my behalf.
Lori Hatcher
If we stop to ponder the paths of our feet, would we: Allow our children to participate in sports or activities that will ultimately consume our family time, dictate our schedules, and cause us to miss church on a regular basis?
Lori Hatcher
In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.
Lori Hatcher
Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.
Lori Hatcher
Waiting on God is not in vain!
Nancy Gavilanes
Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.
Richard Foth
At the end of the day most folks do exactly what they want to, so we need to focus on the want to.
Richard Foth
You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance.
Priscilla Shirer
It is true that often she doesn't want advice; she wants a listening ear. At the same time, however, the wise wife will realize her husband's desire to help and advise is strong. She should refrain from getting angry and humor him a bit, as one wife did by saying, "Thanks for the input. I know I am not the brightest bulb on the tree when it comes to certain things. I am glad we have each other.
Emerson Eggerichs
Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
If there is no scent of Christ’s love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.
Eric Ludy
(The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie.
Priscilla Shirer
When our hearts, minds, and souls are deep within the reality of living loved, we discover that most of those "rules" from Sunday school are simply our new characteristics and our family traits. They are the fruit born of a meaningful, life-changing relationship—they are the flowers of life in the Vine.
Sarah Bessey
God never taught us to live like TV DINNERS in a freezer: Together, but totally separate. #community
Jayce O'Neal
I have experienced some fun moments that have built my courage, and showed me that if we will trust God with our potential embarrassment and step into the outer edges of our faith, fun things can happen.
Adam Gellert
May 30 word: Example"People believe a lot more of what they see you do than what they hear you do. That's why it is important that we take the responsibility to set a good, Biblical example. How we live in front of people and even behind closed doors at home is essential to being an effective witness.
Joyce Meyer
Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.
Shauna Niequist
We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.
Shauna Niequist
You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.
Shauna Niequist
Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.
Steve Farrar
What you feed will lead your life.
Jayce O'Neal
It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when you're always bringing them your most exhausted self and resenting the fact that the scraps you're giving them aren't cutting it.
Shauna Niequist
Brave doesn't always involve grand gestures, sometimes brave looks like staying when you want to leave, telling the truth when all you want to do is change the subject... sometimes brave looks like boring, and thats totally, absolutely, okay.
Shauna Niequist
As I look back, in many instances, I simply followed the natural course of things. And great things happened, mostly. But over time I realized they weren't necessarily great things for me. They were maybe someone else's great things, and I was both taking up the space that was meant for them and not standing in my own space, like wearing someone else's shoes, leaving them barefoot.
Shauna Niequist
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
Francis Chan
Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.
Nancy Missler
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
Francis Chan
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.
Elisabeth Elliot
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
Elisabeth Elliot
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.
Mark Driscoll
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis Chan
Calm is good, passivity not to much. Calm is always a basic inner attitude that makes it possible to concentrate and act purposefully. But passivity suggest an element of denial. Passive people refuse to take initiatives and to exploit stimuli. They sit and wait - without strength, defiant or rigid from shock - in whatever their situation is and prefer to suffer considerably from their plight rather than trying to change something. This includes boredom and even bad relationships.
Sylvia Loehken
We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe
The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.
Jolene Stockman
The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.
Steve Maraboli
Free your mind and free yourself from brand slavery.
Bryant McGill
When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.
Bryant McGill
Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.
Bryant McGill
It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.
Bryant McGill
What if we all stopped fighting to belong and realized that we already do? What if we acknowledged, in each interaction with ourselves and with others, the eternal, beautiful interconnected energy that flows between us? What if we recognized our equality and celebrated our differences? Imagine how the world could be.
Vironika Tugaleva
There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness on the level we are different, and trying to become different on the level we are the same. Peace is a matter of recognizing what is already there, not creating something new.
Vironika Tugaleva
For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality).
Gudjon Bergmann
Accepting experiences is through the understanding that everybody was born equal, no labels, no social status, no preconceptions just born a little person preparing to grow-up on what ever path is grown from development, environment and/or otherwise everybody has the right to have a roof over their head, three meals a day, a wage/payment which can support themselves and their families, a benefit system that cares for the disabled and people with mental illnesses, a government that looks out for all it's people, wars quenched not and man made barriers be fallen so every person knows the commonality of being human is that everybody is all different and let people be novices to other peoples experiences so another person gains anew. People all deserve the right to be equal.
Paul Isaacs
When you Dream, let your Dream be compelling enough to pull you towards its realization
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Sometimes our dreams are affirmed in the most unlikely ways by the mostunlikely people. That’s why we need to speak our commitment out loud.
Gina Greenlee
The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.
Steve Maraboli
Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory.
Steve Maraboli
Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
Mary E. DeMuth
Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)
Mary E. DeMuth
All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.
Bryant McGill
Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.
Bryant McGill