Devotions for the Hungry Heart Quotes

“All the building tools you and I will ever need are found between the pages of His living Word and in listening to His Spirit who comes to live in us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“the fullest, grandest life is found, not in being acknowledged, but in acknowledging and beholding Jesus, the meeting place between God and man.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Making God the object of our longings positions us to recognize the enemy’s schemes for what they are.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“At best, the whole idea of greener grass will keep you from living the life God has for you right where you are. At worst, the lure of greener grass will bring your world crashing down around you.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I ask myself, what lesson is it I’m wanting someone else to hear that I actually need to apply to my own life? I would encourage you to join me in this prayer: oh, Jesus, we surrender our own agendas. Give us ears to hear!”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Turning to Jesus and asking Him to love through me allows me to draw from His bottomless resource!”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“the truth is that loving others will always leave us vulnerable and exposed on some level, and yet we were born with a God-given desire for intimacy.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Location, location, location. Where is Jesus in our lives?”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“The truth is God gives empowering grace to the one who goes to Him for it and then goes back to Him for it repeatedly. He gives grace to those who know how needy they are for Him and who draw on Jesus to live like Jesus. Bottom line; say no to do-it-yourself medical procedures. And say a bigger, more emphatic no to do-it-yourself religion! As James would say, “He giveth more grace.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“our heavenly Father wants us to share our faith and His amazing love with those around us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Rather, our challenge is to live with one main goal: to know God and celebrate the One whom He has sent, Jesus Christ, His Son. In doing this we can’t help but become exactly who He purposed us to be.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“The truth? Only God knows what we have been called to do in our years here on earth, and what we will do.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“To live this life without building on the foundation that is Jesus Christ is futile.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Sometimes we agree to ride on God’s handlebars—as long as we still get to steer. Bad idea! God wants to power your trip and steer it, too. Are you scared? That’s okay. It’s even a bit healthy. Think of it as “hanging on for dear life” on the adventure of a lifetime.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“The promise of abundant life is within our reach, but we’ll have to lay self aside to find it.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“It’s impossible to seek the friendship of Jesus in an ongoing and determined way and not be transformed over time in the process.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“If someone has been reminding you of your past, don’t assume it’s God. If you’re forgiven, it’s forgotten!”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Pulling up our lives to make room for Christ’s can be painful, but it comes with a payoff that is too priceless to measure. The more of me I give up, the more aware I am of His abiding presence. That’s not just a sweet trade, friends. It’s the deal of a lifetime.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“An abundant life in Christ is available to all, but it’s nonnegotiable—you must give up yours to have His. Consider these words from the late theologian E. M. Bounds: “God takes nothing by halves. He gives nothing by halves. We can have the whole of Him when He has the whole of us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“celebrate the incredible intimacy of our heavenly Father who sees the end from the beginning. I’m His favorite. And so are you. And you, and you, and you.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“No one likes to see people they love in pain, whether physical or emotional, but as believers, we are challenged to believe that God can, and is, using those difficulties for His purposes.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“It is in resisting Him that we find ourselves learning tough lessons the hard way.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“How tragic that we would willingly coast on the fumes of a Sunday sermon when we need Jesus so today, and we each have been given the privilege of keeping our tanks topped off by nourishing ourselves in His Word and in His presence. Come on, y’all. Let’s live full to overflowing.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Thankfully, you and I can bring our prayer requests to God’s throne and wait before Him in confident assurance that He hears us, even in our less-than-clearheaded moments. For the One who is intimately acquainted with all our joys and all our sorrows calls us by name and loves us one and all.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I beg you to linger long in the Good Book and give yourself time in the scriptures until your desire for God’s Word deepens and the Word begins to quench your strongest thirst. Given time, our parched hearts come to find that God’s Word is the only source that truly satisfies.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Speaking of Jesus, John the Baptist said, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). Basically, John was talking about the ministry of Christ and how important it was for him to prepare the way by getting out of it! I’ve begun to understand that Jesus is calling us to do the same thing. The way I see it, the more Shellie I can give up, the more room in my family I can offer Jesus to operate.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Introspection is quicksand. Let’s worship God! He alone is worthy of our endless fascination.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Just as our salvation is in Christ Jesus, so is our spiritual growth. We must think less of us and more of Him. Jesus is not some resource hidden under the muck of the believer’s heart. He is a person, the God-man who rescued us. When we worship Him, He transforms us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I talk a lot about this, and I’ll continue to share it as long as God gives me breath: introspection is the enemy of anyone who wants to grow closer to Jesus.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“God is relative today. He saw and heard our very first sounds—and any prayer we may have formed since. He knows where you were yesterday, where you are today, and what His plans are for you tomorrow. Our goal should be to get on His wavelength and watch Him come through loud and clear.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday