Women Living Well Quotes

“One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind-the-scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel. —STEVEN FURTICK”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“I wonder: why is it noble to help men in the workplace, help orphans, help widows, help your pastor, help the neighbors, or help your parents, but degrading to help your husband—your groom, your lover, and your best friend?”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Going it alone is, without a doubt, one of the most common and effective strategies that Satan uses to discourage moms. A woman alone in her home with her ideals eventually wears down and becomes a perfect target for Satan to discourage. —SALLY CLARKSON, DESPERATE”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. —EPHESIANS 5:33”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The Word of God is full of living water. We need to drink deeply from this living well so we can be women living well.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“We need quiet and unproductive moments in order to be women living well who are drinking deep from the living well—Jesus.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Will the world change your children, or will your children change the world? The”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The influence of a mother comes through the voices she allows to speak into her home. What are your children soaking in from you and from the music, television, or friends you choose to bring into your home?”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“I’m sure you have felt the exhaustion, fatigue, and the drain on your emotional and spiritual life as you balance being a wife, mother, and everything else you have to do. When we are stressed, we can look to a lot of things to feed our souls, such as a fun girls’ night out or a long movie or time surfing on the Web or a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies! But anything less than God Himself will leave our souls unsatisfied. Psalm”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The most obvious symptom of a soul in need of God’s satisfaction is a sense of inner emptiness—the constant inability to be satisfied. In”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Without prayer, fasting is simply a diet. You must commit to praying and meditating during the times you would normally eat a meal.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning. —JOHN PIPER, WHEN I DON’T DESIRE GOD”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“If you continue to hold on to your hurts, a root of bitterness will grow inside of you.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Have we forgotten the power of the “I”—not the iPad, iPhone, or iPod—but of the Great I AM?”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Do you want to be a better wife? Study your Bible. Do you want to be a better mother? Study your Bible. Do you want to be a better homemaker? Study your Bible. Do you want to be a better friend or coworker? Study your Bible.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“I charge my cell phone daily because without power it goes dead. Similarly, we need to plug into God’s power daily. We need to be recharged by His words and His strength daily. Reading God’s Word every day will change the entire course of our lives.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Voices. They come at us from every side. We listen to the voices on the iPad. The iPod. The iPhone. But are we listening to the voice of the Great I AM?”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“It is not the things we have or the things we do not have that make our homes a haven. It’s you, my dear reader; you are the key to making the home a haven.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“My husband’s faith is unwavering. His integrity stellar. His courage to be a truth teller unstoppable. His knowledge of theology deep. But will he get flowery about his love for Jesus or anything else? Not likely. His walk with God looks different from mine, just as your walk with God might look different from mine.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“It’s the daily love of listening, forgiving, caring, respecting, and being sensitive to the other person that builds a great marriage. If you get to go out on a date night—that’s the cherry on top!”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“When we are stressed, we can look to a lot of things to feed our souls, such as a fun girls’ night out or a long movie or time surfing on the Web or a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies! But anything less than God Himself will leave our souls unsatisfied.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“intentionally smile more, hug more, slow down, listen, and take a deep breath.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“As we have seen, there are voices everywhere, with televisions, iPods, computers, radios, cell phones, and more competing for our attention. These voices distract us from hearing the voice of God and dealing with our spiritual issues.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“But have you felt it? Have you felt a fight for your soul? The battle is huge in this high-tech society!”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Electricity has created an artificial day during our nights. Rather than sleeping like most of nature does, when the sun goes down we try to defy nature and keep going as if it is still daytime. We live in a world that runs 24/7. Computers, televisions, cell phones, the Internet, restaurants, grocery stores, and more are at our access around the clock. We try to keep pace with our hyperactive culture, and then we wonder why we, and some of our children, are so . . . well . . . hyperactive! We must slow down and create calm moments. It is in our unhurried moments that we can see and hear clearly.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Voices. These are the voices to which I choose not to listen. They don’t have the right to speak into my life.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The voice of the Lord is powerful and majestic, yet it is nearly impossible to hear over the clamor of this world.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“If you are waiting on God in prayer, remember Isaiah 40:28–31: Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“Be free from bitterness!”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home

“The Bible is revolutionary, life-changing, extraordinary, eye opening, jaw-dropping, and downright amazing. It is filled with romance, tragedy, heroes, good and evil. There is suspense, drama, wisdom, and comfort. As you read, you will weep and you will jump for joy. Yet we women are too often drawn away by novels, self-help books, cookbooks, magazines, and social media. These are a poor substitute for the Bible and a relationship with God.

There is no other place in this world where we can get a direct message from God, so why do we neglect reading Scripture? Don’t we want to hear God’s voice?

The Word of God is full of living water. We need to drink deeply from this living well so we can be women living well.”
― Courtney Joseph, Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids, and Your Home