Undaunted Quotes

“God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels — those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still in evidence, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“[Loosen] up your life enough to be ready for interruptions. Don't structure your days so rigidly that you lock out God from working with you in the middle of them.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“The long series of disappointments you accumulate in a lifetime can stop you from moving forward into all the goodness God has planned for you – and that means they’ll be stopping not only you, but also all those God has destined you to reach along your life journey.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“You need to return to the truth of God's Word that will last forever, not meditate on circumstance that will fade and change.
It is this truth that enables us to go into the future undaunted.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Anything meant in this world for evil, God can use for good. God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes our trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his word, he abides in you.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Your freedom will be determined by whether you allow what I think and say about you to matter more than what anyone else thinks or says,”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Why didn't you come sooner?
I offered them no excuses that day, but I did know that there were reasons. Reasons that, when we hear God's call, when we feel that gentle (or not so gentle) urging of God's Spirit for us to make a bold step, take a risk, serve others, save a life, commit - we so often hold back.
It's because we don't feel empowered.
We don't feel qualified.
We think we lack the courage, the strength, the wisdom, the money, the experience, the education, the organization, the backing.
We feel like Moses...
Not me, God. I'm afraid. Weak. Poor. Stupid.
Unqualified.
Daunted....
It has never been my desire to be daunted, to be afraid, to be unable to respond to God's call.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has never changed, therefore nothing has essentially changed. I may not be who I thought I was, but I still am who he says I am. I am more. I am loved. I am his.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“It was my moment of wondering what, in my life, had been my golden pin like Schindler's, the thing so precious to me that it never occurred to me to use it to ransom the life of someone else.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“I lifted my Bible in one hand and with my other scooped up all the papers on my adoption. Both hands held paper that contained words printed in black and white ink. Both contained facts. Yet only one held the truth. I had to choose which of these documents I would entrust with my life.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8–9)”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“The oppressed do not see too much difference between those who would keep them down and those who do nothing to help. There is no in-between.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted Student Edition: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“The apostle Paul writes to the Ephesians, “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:14–16).”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Even as the underpinnings of my world had shifted radically, they were resettling in a more secure place. Even as things seemed to be falling apart, the truth of God's love was holding me together. And that truth was: I knew he loved me, unquestionably, unconditionally, whether I was adopted or not. The truth was: His love is relentless, unyielding, passionate, unfailing, perfect.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“If God created us to do good works of eternal significance, he would not create us ill-prepared for those tasks.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“Just as life will upend you, so will love.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“instruction of Paul to the Philippians to “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6–7 NKJV).”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“I choose to remind myself that you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do

“No matter how the treasure of a soul comes to be lost, our job is to go and rescue and save what is precious, and in these three stories, Jesus is making it clear to us what is precious. The one who is just like you. Just like me.”
― Christine Caine, Undaunted: Daring to Do What God Calls You to Do