God's Favorite Place on Earth Quotes

“You cannot be around Jesus Christ for very long without changing. His presence transforms.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“As Thomas Moore once put it, “Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” Jesus is heaven personified.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“. A word of encouragement: if your foundations are in Jesus Christ, then you can weather the storm.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“An exhortation from one beggar to another: keep sacrificing. Keep losing. Keep laying your life down. Keep loving your enemies. Keep blessing those who despise you. Keep refusing to return fire upon those who bad-mouth you. Keep pouring your life into others, even if those people never acknowledge it and even if others never notice. Keep faithfully serving your Lord without looking back. Why? Because there is One who is watching. And only His opinion matters.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“Jesus desires friends, not servants. He desires love, not servitude. In the cold temple of Jerusalem, God was merely served. But in the warmth of the Bethany home, He was befriended and cherished.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“Someone once said that you don’t hold a grudge. It holds you. Holding a grudge is self-inflicted pain. Consequently, bitterness doesn’t imprison those who hurt you. It imprisons you.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“As we survey church history, we discover that A. W. Tozer’s piercing observation is most accurate: “All great Christians have been wounded souls.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“The moment He set me free is the moment He captured me.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“God’s idea of ministry training is a broken vessel. His idea of spiritual preparation is suffering, which includes rejection.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“When God created the world, He worked for six days and then rested. Adam was created on the sixth day. So God’s seventh day—the Sabbath—was Adam’s first full day.”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth

“Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The”
― Frank Viola, God's Favorite Place on Earth