But God Quotes

“If you want your kids to know and love God, is it most effective for you to miss church all summer so they can play ball?”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“You can assess if you’re spending your time around the right people based on their effect on you.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“instead of looking at opportunities to see if she can fit them into her schedule, she now makes decisions with her spiritual destination in mind.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“Sometimes we have to say no to some good opportunities in order to say yes to our God-given priorities.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“God asks you to trust him to help you accomplish great feats that you could never achieve on your own. You may feel unsuccessful because you see yourself as different from those you admire. But the way you are is not by accident. It is on purpose.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“Moses’ “but God” encounter was basically an argument with God — and we all know how those tend to go!”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“When we tell others our story, we are opening a door not to let the story out, but to let ourselves walk through that door toward freedom.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“God supplies the contrast to our limitations, liabilities, and losses. He turns our expectations upside down, blows our minds, and transforms our hearts with the ways he loves us, protects us, provides for us, and redeems us.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything

“When we scroll through a social media page, we see the highlights of what everyone else is doing. Frequently, we are scrolling through those highlights while we are bored, maybe alone, maybe wishing our lives were a little different, if not like their lives seem to be on Instagram. We compare another person’s exciting trip to the beach with the fact that we’re still sitting here on the couch. Or working so many hours to make ends meet. We forget that Jane posts when she is experiencing a highlight, or when Bob landed that new account, not while they’re sitting on the couch like you are.”
― Herbert Cooper, But God: Changes Everything