Beth Moore Quotes - Page 9

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.

Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise