Named by God Quotes

“I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn’t understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers!”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“The truth is, however, that God does not intend for us to forget our past because it has the potential to make us stronger, more purpose-filled people. God can redeem those experiences and use them to transform us into a more accurate image of his Son. The key is that we must let him into those places so that we can see him—and ourselves—more clearly.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“God has a calling for us to embrace right now, today.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“With each birthday, we change. With each death, we change. With each great love and each bitter heartbreak, we change. With each hurtful word and each cut of betrayal, we change. With each burst of happiness and each tear-inducing laugh, we change. With each good story, great friendship, and meaningful conversation, we change. Our lives are in a constant state of change, moving fluidly between the past, the present, and the future. And so it is until the day we die. We can’t stop change or do much to control it, but we can control the way we react to what happens to us along the way. With God’s help, we can overcome our past, transform our present, and embrace our future.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“John Piper has a powerful way of bringing this concept home: When God visits the sins of the fathers on the children, he doesn’t punish sinless children for the sins of their fathers. He simply lets the effects of the fathers’ sins take their natural course, infecting and corrupting the hearts of the children. For parents who love their children this is one of the most sobering texts in all the Bible. The more we let sin get the upper hand in our own lives, the more our children will suffer for it. Sin is like a contagious disease. My children don’t suffer because I have it. They catch it from me and then suffer because they have it.1”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“Even with all his flaws, David has gone down in history as a man after God’s own heart. The same can be true for you, too. God can give you a new legacy and allow you to pass on a blessing, not a curse, to the next generation.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“Through the work of Jesus Christ, God is able to save lost sinners, forgive disobedient saints, and even go a step further to redeem the pitfalls from our past.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“The Bible always tells the beautiful and brutal truth about people and the human condition.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“I have wasted loads of sideways energy fueling the desire to forget what has happened in my past. Somewhere along the way we have been tricked into believing that if we can simply ignore what has happened to us, it will lose its hold on us. The truth is, however, that God does not intend for us to forget our past because it has the potential to make us stronger, more purpose-filled people. God can redeem those experiences and use them to transform us into a more accurate image of his Son.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“Whether we choose to acknowledge God as our Creator or not, we are all born with a “God code”—a strand of spiritual DNA that hardwires us to know and serve a power higher than ourselves. However, being born as one named by God and living as one named by God are two different roads. To be named by God—and to live that way—is to abide in a constant state of redemption and surrender. It is a place of knowing who you are in Christ and knowing that your true identity is found in him. It is a place of recognizing that other people’s opinions and attitudes toward you no longer dictate your worth.”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future

“Through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. COLOSSIANS 1:16-17”
― Kasey Van Norman, Named by God: Overcoming Your Past, Transforming Your Present, Embracing Your Future