What Keeps You Up at Night? Quotes

“When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.” —J. I. Packer”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The trust that allows us to embrace uncertainty has three aspects: belief in the provision of God, belief in the promises of God, and belief in the power of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“When I trust in God, I am acting on the conviction that He knows more about real life than I do.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“I believe this is a key to the spiritual transformation that comes through faithful waiting: realizing that God’s power is greater than our circumstances.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“every single person you see—from the homeless woman panhandling on the corner to the movers and shakers in high-rise office suites—carries within a spark of the divine Spirit of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We’re becoming “quickaholics” who expect instant results, instant improvement, instant gratification.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The dreams in your heart are no accident; they were put there by God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“It’s kind of odd when you think about it. We’ve all got these huge gaps of information in our knowledge of what’s really going on with the people around us every day. The difference is that when we think of other folks, we fill in the gaps with the most optimistic assessment, and when we think of our own situations, we fill in the gaps with worst-case scenarios. It’s like we can have faith and confidence on behalf of others, but we can’t have them on our own behalf!”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“And fear can inflict some ugly consequences on our lives. It is perhaps the world’s most pernicious thief. It steals our joy in the present and robs us of our hope for the future.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“When the treadmill is spinning too fast, learn to step off.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Distorted images of God lead to distorted lives.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The thing we admire most about our greatest heroes is the way their victories lead to victories for others.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The great preacher Marshall Keeble used to say, “If God tells me to jump through a brick wall, it’s up to me to jump, and it’s up to God to make the hole.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“your life is calibrated with God only when you recognize that God—not you—is the center of everything. Only by committing yourself, over and over, to placing your supreme trust in God and in him only will you remain in sync with the way God means for you to live your life.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“hurry is not a calendar issue—it’s a heart issue.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We are not designed to live our lives out of alignment with God. If we don’t periodically recalibrate, something, somewhere is going to get out of whack. And the consequences can be devastating.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“If we worship something other than the true God—usually, something we have dressed up and named “god”—our lives will reflect the degraded substitute instead of the actual glory of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Faithful waiting involves actively seeking contentment, even amid less-than-optimal circumstances.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Faithful waiting on God makes us stronger, not weaker.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Never forget that you are not trusting to blind chance; you are trusting the God who longs to be with you.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“God isn’t a concept or a theory. He is a person who has desires and purposes—and one of His desires is to be with you”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“It takes a very special type of heart to keep believing during the hard times. But it helps to remember that God specializes in the unexpected. He is into the unpredictable, the unlooked-for. He is the original author of the surprise ending.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We are most often focused on what is happening to us, but God is more concerned about what is happening in us.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Max Lucado has written: God loves us right where we are, but he loves us too much to let us stay there.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” —Joshua 1:9 NLT”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“failure is just life trying to move you in a different direction.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Nothing is as powerful as the image of God shining forth in the lives of His faithful people!”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“No victory or accomplishment achieved with God’s help is private property. It is meant to be shared.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” —Francis Bacon”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams