Chasing Vines Quotes

“I’ve become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they’ve hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn’t have taken the Cross to forgive them. It could have just happened over coffee.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The English word human literally means “a creature of earth,” from the word humus, or ground.[1] The humble word humble comes from the same origin and means “lowly, near the ground.”[2] God appointed gravity to keep us there.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The titanic difference between God’s affections and ours is that His are incorruptible. We process information about Him as if His emotions were created in our image rather than ours in His image. The original source of all emotion is utterly undefiled.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“MATTHEW 5:43-46 Love God. Love one another. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. That about covers it. In Christ’s meticulous census, the community exempt from the love of Christians has a population of exactly zero.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. GENESIS 1:28 Abide in me. JOHN 15:4 Go . . . [to] all nations. MATTHEW 28:19 Stay . . . and go. Jesus is our staying power in all our going. If you’ll stay while you go, you may not always know where you’re going. But you can know that wherever you end up, He will walk you there. [1] Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“When you begin to feel lifeless in Him, look for the tourniquet that’s cutting off the life flow. Most often we’ll find it in earthly ties that are cinched too tightly.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Because showing requires going. It assumes presence. Accompaniment. I can send you somewhere and not go with you, but how can I show you something without being present?”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It’s only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“God made to spring up. It’s a wonder that God would choose to slowly grow what He could have simply created grown. Why on earth would He go to the trouble to plant a garden forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence, full bloom? Why leave His desk and get His pant legs soiled? Because God likes watching things grow. +”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“What I lack in cooking skills I make up for in garlic.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“There for the taking. Simply put, we’re meant to be agents of good in the world, not professional closers for Jesus. But make no mistake: when we endure and do good, that will witness.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God’s will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“When we act as if we don’t notice God’s blessings, it’s not humility. It’s ingratitude.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“That is truly one of the rudest things I’ve ever heard, but eureka! What rich fertilizer! Thank you! God bless you.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Yes, Christ can bring fruit from His followers’ incalculable suffering. But on this side of eternity, the point isn’t making it worth it. It’s about making it matter.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“One way the enemy of our souls deflects the shame he experienced at the Cross is to keep us too heaped in our own shame to notice his. The tragedy is that we play right along, as if he were more believable than Jesus.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“To a human race insatiably attracted to attractiveness, God offered a Savior with “no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2). We keep looking for a beautiful way to a beautiful life, when as God would have it, the only way to find it is through an unbeautiful cross.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“If we offer what we’ve experienced to Him, in all its horror and ugliness, and receive His offer to redeem all that occurred, He will bring fruit from it. This has been the single most healing aspect of my recovery from childhood victimization. This is my prayer for that precious little girl. And my prayer for you, too, if you’ve experienced something similar.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“At times God is too close for us to see. We lose sight of how He’s working until months or years later, when we’re able to step back and gain a broader perspective. I frequently think about Moses pleading with God to show him His glory. God knew Moses couldn’t handle what he was requesting, so He told him He’d hide him in the crevice of a rock and cover him with His hand while His glory passed by.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Receiving a cutback for impressive production is counterintuitive to us mortals, particularly in a screen-driven world where the bigger the bytes, the better the product. God, however, doesn’t appear to mind being misunderstood. His determination to do us good is undeterred by accusations that He’s doing us harm. He rarely takes up for Himself, since there’s no place further up for Him to go. Instead, He’s content to reply with the foreign language of shears in choppy syllables.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“What you must trust in these moments is that anything God breaks down is intended to build you up.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“At the risk of oversimplification, maybe abiding doesn’t require deep analysis. Perhaps all I need to ask myself at the moment is whether or not I am still tender. Still flexible. At times I am neither. The branch that snaps easily is either dead or stuck in a long-past winter.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“From the very beginning, God geared the faith walk to be relational, not informational. The latter was always intended for the sake of the former.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is “interest leading to inquiry.”[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it’s looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn’t satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“He supplants only for the purpose of giving life, not taking it. He reminds us at strategic times that nothing and no one can sustain us but Him.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“All the nouns—the people, places, and things—I’ve believed were inseparable from who I was have been strategically targeted by God. Over the years, He has sought to supplant them with Christ alone. They weren’t cast aside as worthless any more than the land was relegated to meaninglessness for the people of God. They had their role, but they simply weren’t Jesus.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The vinedresser does a curious thing with the rotten fruit. He turns it back into the soil and there, underground, by some spectacular organic miracle of nature, it fertilizes a future harvest.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Nothing is unforgivable, thank God. But some things cannot be excused. They must be repented of and dramatically corrected and permanently changed.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life