Translating God Quotes

“There is no power from God that is separated from love. If you want to have influence, you have to join yourself to his love nature. This is more than a feeling or an emotion. It is an attitude of acceptance toward everyone and everything that is God’s, even if you can’t control it, manage it, or even nurture it. You are called to love.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“Many times when I didn’t feel qualified, or like I didn’t have the relational or emotional capacity, let alone the skillset, to speak to different people (it felt way out of my comfort zone), God’s personality and his passion possessed me in a way that made it easy. I am not limited to my resources; I am limited to his, even when reaching outside my comfortable space.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“You are not rejecting a person if you reject his words. You get to receive the person with kindness and compassion and treat him as a human being. If someone gets offended and feels rejected just because you rejected his words, then stay away from him, because he has unhealthy heart boundaries that cause him to use prophecy to control or manipulate the people around him.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice For Yourself And The World Around You

“We don’t need to have a birthmark prophetically positioned in a sign on our third rib to tell us what the Bible has already told us: We are intricately, beautifully, and wonderfully made.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“When John came back from this experience, I am sure it changed the way he saw everyone and everything. He could probably no longer see with any value the weakness of individuals or the politics in the church. He was now seeing everyone with a full invitation to be that bride.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“If we love God with all of our heart, mind, and strength, then we will spend all of our time letting his love, Word, and presence build our character in order to protect and advance the relationship.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“This is the goal of prophecy: to connect people to the empowering nature of God so they can become like him and display his marvelous nature to all the earth.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“La meta de la revelación es sencilla: ver lo que Dios ve, escuchar lo que Dios escucha y decir lo que Dios dice para que todos podamos amar de la forma en que Dios ama. La”
― Shawn Bolz, Interpretando a Dios: Escuchando La Voz De Dios Para Ti Mismo Y Para El Mundo Que Te Rodea

“Part of the Father’s joy is in developing you and then watching you be strong and make great, very real choices. He enjoys seeing what his nature produces in you and what you create with it.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“They saw in their hearts a developed South Korea and asked God for a strategy to bring that about. He showed them that if they rallied Westerners to finance one child each through education, then this education would become a foundation for the future greatness of the country. They used this prophetic word to start one of the greatest humanitarian organizations for children in history: Compassion International. (How many readers, I wonder, have supported a child by sending money to a Compassion International child sponsorship project.) The first generation of Compassion International kids that graduated college had a knack for building, and they helped lay Korea’s foundation in government (one was even one of the first Supreme Court justices), education (many became teachers right away), religion (many became Christian pastors and leaders), and industry (many started businesses). It was such a pivotal movement that it is still referred to by many of the South Korean government leaders I have met. South Korea began its greater development into what it is today because God invested a vision of its future to Christians, organizations, and other groups. He gave them the faith to help Korea become what it is today.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“God’s glory is our manifesting his heart and character through our lives and choices.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice for Yourself and the World Around You

“If you won’t allow someone to evaluate what you are saying or give you feedback when you prophesy to him, then you are essentially saying you are more important and have more authority, wisdom, and connection to what you are prophesying about than he does. That is the exact opposite goal of prophecy. Prophecy is supposed to connect people to the world around them and the God who loves them, not place you in the center of the equation.”
― Shawn Bolz, Translating God: Hearing God's Voice For Yourself And The World Around You