Pressing Pause Quotes

“You are God’s work of art, and He continues to shape you into the Christlike person He created you to be. You are a beautiful, powerful piece of art in the hands of the master Artist. The plans He has prepared are not yet finished. So walk in His love. Enter the story of His redeeming grace. Wherever God has you, do good for His glory!”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“When we abide in Jesus, His living water flows from within us: “Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them” (John 7:38). As the rivers flow from within us, not only do we not need a drink, but we have excess life to give to our husband. Excess life means no more empty equations. Full and free is the marriage in which each member finds his or her fountain in Christ. He is the foundational fountain. As we individually come to the well, our passion-parched hearts become revived with divine romance. Here, we are satisfied.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Jeremiah 9:23–24 reminds us, “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. —COLOSSIANS 3:23–24 HCSB”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“We will be blessed in what we do! Not blessed long after the fact or blessed only if someone else notices. No, we can be blessed in the act of service itself! As we vacuum, as we do the laundry, as we clean up the spills, we can be blessed right there in the center of it.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Be careful of being conformed to those thoughts that do not belong to the Father—thoughts and words that are not His. He speaks life and truth.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“We need to be willing to set aside the distractions and the next task because reaching our children’s hearts requires our attention. Love slows down and listens. Listen to your children’s hearts. Listen to their fears. Listen to their dreams. Listen to their concerns. Love encourages. It spurs children on without squashing them in the process. Love inspires, casting a vision for doing better. God’s love motivates our obedience to love Him back. Instead of harsh discipline that breaks the spirit, let’s remember how our Father lovingly corrects us and reminds us of His unconditional love. Let us do the same for those He has entrusted to us.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“This is precisely why our children need to be reminded of our unconditional love for them. They need first and foremost a relationship and not just a list of dos and don’ts. Rules may change behavior, but they cannot change the heart. Our children need us to pursue them patiently even when they don’t deserve it as our Father does with us.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“We go to God in our neediness and poverty because we know that—in His abundance—He has all that we need. Teaching our children to pray is showing them how to do life with God instead of doing it alone.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“When we live generously, joy is ours because we invest more in people than possessions.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Doing life with others brings incredible joy.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Let our words be like tools in the hands of a skilled carpenter. With God’s help, let’s build something beautiful, intimate, and renewing in our relationships using our words. Let our lives be a place where we invite true friendship to happen.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“The world doesn’t need more bling. It needs more clay.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Flashy on the outside wasn’t how Jesus rolled, and flashy on the inside doesn’t come from us. We roll in minivans of clay so that God’s awesomeness is clearly recognized for what it is: Him and not us.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“We need to be willing to set aside the distractions and the next task because reaching our children’s hearts requires our attention. Love slows down and listens.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“Start dreaming. Pray hard. And if God is calling you, don’t be afraid to take a step of faith.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right

“In the afternoon we can’t forget what God told us in the morning.”
― Karen Ehman, Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus – 100 Daily Devotions Encourage Your Heart and Start Your Day Right