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“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Satan’s goal is to divide and destroy (John 10:10): he tempted Adam and Eve to sin, which divided them and the rest of humanity from God. Since then, he has been trying to divide us through lifestyle choices— ways to eat, work out, dress, date, and even worship. In contrast, the only reason God divides is to further unite us: he divided the curtain that separated us from himself (Ephesians 2:14), and separates our sins from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12).”
― Kasey Shuler, Love Beyond Looks: A 5-Week Bible Study On Body Image

“Wouldn’t you like to be the skater who wins the silver, and yet is thrilled about those three triple jumps that the gold medal winner did? To love it the way you love a sunrise? Just to love the fact that it was done? For it not to matter whether it was their success or your success. Not to care if they did it or you did it. You are as happy that they did it as if you had done it yourself—because you are just so happy to see”
― Kasey Shuler, Love Beyond Looks: A 5-Week Bible Study On Body Image

“Tish is sensitive, and that is her superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“We become portable meeting places where those who are still exiled from God can meet Him, through us.”
― Jamie Moore, Friendship with God: Discover God's Relational Presence and Receive Peace, Identity, and Purpose for Your Life

“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God” (Revelation 21:3).”
― Jamie Moore, Friendship with God: Discover God's Relational Presence and Receive Peace, Identity, and Purpose for Your Life

“So, when you need help from God, ask to be filled with His Spirit. When you need to be taught something in the Word, ask to be filled with the Spirit and then begin to read the Bible. When you get up in the morning, ask to be filled with the presence of God’s Spirit. When you have a business decision to make, ask to be filled with the Spirit and yield to His wisdom. When you pray over your meal at lunch, ask to be filled before you eat. When you lie down to sleep, ask to be filled as you rest. Ask and receive the good gift of the Holy Spirit. This is the command: be continually filled with the Holy Spirit.”
― Jamie Moore, Friendship with God: Discover God's Relational Presence and Receive Peace, Identity, and Purpose for Your Life

“Though some Bible students have tried to estimate how much this stone weighed, we need not speculate, because Jesus could have come out of that tomb whether the stone was there or not.”
― Billy Graham, Angels: God's Secret Agents

“Come, live in me!” Jesus invites. “Make my home your home.” Odds are that you know what it means to be at home somewhere. To be at home is to feel safe. The residence is a place of refuge and security. To be at home is to be comfortable. You can pad around wearing slippers and a robe. To be at home is to be familiar. When you enter the door, you needn’t consult the blueprint to find the kitchen.”
― Max Lucado, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

“My mother always said not to leave the house in shoes you can’t walk a mile in.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Whenever, in short, it appears to us that everything is in a ruinous condition, let us recall to our remembrance that Christ is called Wonderful, because he has inconceivable methods of assisting us, and because his power is far beyond what we are able to conceive. When we need counsel, let us remember that he is the Counselor. When we need strength, let us remember that he is Mighty and Strong. When new terrors spring up suddenly every instant, and when many deaths threaten us from various quarters, let us rely on that eternity of which he is with good reason called the Father, and by the same comfort let us learn to soothe all temporal distresses. When we are inwardly tossed by various tempests, and when Satan attempts to disturb our consciences, let us remember that Christ is The Prince of Peace, and that it is easy for him quickly to allay all our uneasy feelings. Thus will these titles confirm us more and more in the faith of Christ, and fortify us against Satan and against hell itself.” (Calvin)”
― David Guzik, Isaiah: Verse-by-Verse Commentary

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“A mother listens for the breathing of her babe in the dark. It will tell her so much. The soft, measured breath, or the laboring, gasping breath. God never hides His ear from our breathing; or from those in- articulate cries, which express, as words could not do, the deep anguish and yearning of the heart. If you cannot speak, cry, sob, or groan, then be still. God can interpret all.” (Meyer)”
― David Guzik, Jeremiah and Lamentations: Commentary

“At first, He shook us very tenderly but now, His shaking has become violent, because He has not succeeded in awakening us… God is going to shake everything in sight so that He is revealed as the only unshakeable power.
-David Wilkerson”
― Saphina Carla, Church Girl Culture Vs. Christ: A Raw Conversation on Faith, Purity Culture, and Cosmetic Christianity...

“For a long time, the Jesus that has been portrayed in the American Church – a soft, blue-eyed, long-haired, white guy who pets baby sheep in his spare time and never gets angry – often looks vastly different than the Jesus in the bible. The same Jesus who fed sheep, flipped tables. The same God who created the earth in seven days, is the same God who flooded it in one. The same God who parted the Red Sea, is the same God who used it to drown His enemies. The same God who rained down bread from heaven to provide, is the same God who rained down fire from heaven to destroy. The same Jesus who died as a lamb, is the same Jesus who is returning as a Lion.”
― Saphina Carla, Church Girl Culture Vs. Christ: A Raw Conversation on Faith, Purity Culture, and Cosmetic Christianity...