Disciplines of a Godly Woman Quotes

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Let it be the one business of my life to glorify Thee by every word of my tongue, by every work of my hand, by professing Thy truth, and by engaging all men, so far as in me lies, to glorify and love Thee.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It’s a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“To keep under, that is to submit. The Soul can submit to God at the time when it can send itself under the power and authority and dominion that God has over it.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures” (emphasis mine). Paul keeps it simple: Jesus Christ died for our sins and was resurrected from the dead. Then he adds—twice!—an all-important but often overlooked phrase: “according to the Scriptures.” In other words, the Old Testament is the source and validation of this Gospel and this Christ. By pointing us to the Old Testament Scriptures, Paul is telling us that Jesus Christ didn’t come in a vacuum—an event unrelated to past or future.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“but the aligning of my will to the will of God.”1 Prayer then is not about getting God to do my bidding, but the shaping and bending of my will until it aligns with His.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified,” writes Paul (1 Corinthians 9:27 NKJV).”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“the more I understand Paul’s exercise priorities: “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16).”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Real love is intentional, an act of the will.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“We must come with great expectation--for we will experience just what we expect.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Every single time I confess my self-reliance and submit my life to God's will in a particular area, I am worshiping God--as surely as any sincere Israelite offering a lamb in obedience to God's plan.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“The single woman needs to respect herself as a sexual being whom God created.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“life is about discovering where they fit into God’s plan, whether single or married.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“What does our life guide, the Bible, say? First Corinthians 7:40 declares that it is better to be single than married. Better! Shake yourself loose from the ideas of the world around you and look to God’s Word to see the single life described as an assignment, a calling, and a gift.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Discipline of Singleness Submission’s Framework—Singleness       Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him.   1 CORINTHIANS 7:17”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“He values the structure of the “assembly” or “gathering,” as the word church literally means (Deuteronomy 4:10; 9:10; 31:30; Matthew 18:17; Acts 5:11; Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 1:22; 3:10; Hebrews 12:23). The visible church is, therefore, the gathering of the people of God. Whether there are two or three believers meeting or five thousand, Christ is there: “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:20). There’s something special, valuable, about the gathering of believers, as opposed to simply the individual operating alone. Some of the other ways this gathering of believers, the church, is described in Scripture are the body, the family, the household, the bride, the building, the flock, the temple. The fact that Scripture reaches for so many descriptive terms to describe the church shows us its importance. God wants us to treasure the visible church. We will examine the first three—the body, the family, and the household.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“THE BODY Because the church is “the gathering of God’s people,” the church is about relationships. This is especially clear in the comparison of the church to a body. Just as a physical body is intricately interconnected, the church too depends upon the proper function of each individual part. When one part fails, the entire body is affected.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Do we dare devalue what Christ cherishes? Christ treasures the visible church.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman

“Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me, All His wonderful passion and purity. Oh, thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine, Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.”
― Barbara Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman