Chasing Vines Quotes

“Delusion never delivers.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Yielding to His authority and affections makes no small difference in our judgment (1 Corinthians 2:12-16). When we look through spiritual eyes, we can see fruit for what it is—we can distinguish between pride and confidence, between self-abasement and humility, between contentiousness and healthy confrontation.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Pervasive gender exclusivity in the organic development of the church does not—indeed, it cannot—bear ripe fruit, because half of what is required for maturity is all but missing. It’s tantamount to slicing the body of Christ at the waist and dividing it pound for pound. We could claim each half got their share, but the body would still be in pieces.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Jesus alone is supreme. In His economy, the mark of greatness is worn only by the servant to all. Under Jesus’ reign, the self-exalted are ultimately humbled and the self-humbled are ultimately exalted.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Supremacy among mortals is always oppositional to God, but among people who carry the name of Christ, it is blasphemous.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“None of us can do a thousand things to the glory of God, but we can do several. When you’re on your deathbed, which ones will you want to have chosen?”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“What’s the best way to tell what kind of fruit is being produced in your life? Look for evidence of the fruit of the Spirit—things like “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). If the action or approach is quenching qualities of the Spirit, it’s producing bad fruit. If it’s evidencing qualities of the Spirit, it’s producing good fruit.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The longer I live, the less I find God to be a hand shaker. Hand holder? Yes. Hand shaker? No.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“One of the most mysterious aspects about God communicated in Scripture is that His knowledge about what would transpire didn’t necessarily preclude His heightened hopes of something different. He didn’t always spare Himself the shock of something appalling, even though He saw it coming. Even a predestined conclusion didn’t spare God the emotion of the result. Perhaps most significantly, knowing why didn’t keep God from asking why (Isaiah 5:4 and Mark 15:34).”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Because the grape was proudly multipurpose, the shelf life it had to offer the ancient world was practically without rival. Grapes could be eaten fresh, straight from the vine. Dried, they were renamed raisins, and in the Bible, they were eaten plain or baked into cakes. Pressed, the grapes produced fresh juice, or far more significantly, they could be utterly transformed, possessing new properties and chemistry, into vinegars and wines.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“To a gardener, grown is overrated. It’s growing it that makes the fruit sweet.”
― 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

“Instead, we feel like ashes, leftovers from a bygone fire, blown aimlessly by the wind. We feel like we’re not even important enough to be forgotten, because we were never known in the first place.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“It is a poor soul who confuses dirt with filth or soil with soiled.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Make it easy for those in need. Make their provision plain to see.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“The fact is, real beauty is found out there under the same sky as vulnerability. I’m not suggesting we can’t die out there—we can. But we will most certainly die if we stay inside forever. Given enough time in the artificial light, within our insulated walls, our fruit will dry up and our branches will wither. Tap water simply can’t compare with the feeling of rain on our faces. Hearing the wind is a paltry substitute for feeling it whip through our hair. Shut yourself in from the pain of exposure, and you’ll also miss the sunset, where orange turns to purple and restores the souls of weary mortals. When we overinsulate ourselves, we’re protecting ourselves right out of our callings.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Just take the next step. I’ll show you what to do from there.” During so much of this walk with God, we feel blindfolded. Certain seasons are pocked with such random events that we decide all is helter-skelter. Other seasons seem so illustriously orchestrated that the ties between events are like streamers of spun gold. 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

“Our part is to follow Jesus. He knows what He’s doing with you. No one’s loved more than you. No one’s a bigger priority than you. No one else is so high on His list of favorites that your contribution to the body of Christ is drowned out or diminished.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Your fruit will outlast your life. You can’t always see the effects, because they are eternal, but one day you will. One day you will see that you couldn’t have been more significant if you’d tried.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“have we harvested with the margins in mind? Do we intentionally serve people on the edge?”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“So on those days when it seems like God is silent and you have nothing to show for your life besides dung and death, know that even those are not wasted. God is using even the messiest parts and the most painful and seemingly hopeless parts to get your soil ready. You, loved and chosen by God, have much good fruit yet to bear.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“thick, cozy cloud. We want to believe the best about people in our identity groups, and thankfully, the best is often the truth.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“In order to answer this question with accuracy, specifics are helpful: Are those under your purposeful influence growing in any discernible ways in their love for God and neighbor? Are they maturing in their witness, as far as you can tell? Have they begun to serve God and others instead of being content to watch you serve God and them? Is their discipleship personal rather than primarily social? To the degree that you are able to observe, does their life bear the fruit of forgiveness and demonstrate love? Are their relationships improving? First, look to those who were infants in faith when they came under your influence. Has there been growth? Are they toddling? Are some walking? Even running? Next, look to the ones who came under your influence when they were already fairly discipled. Has their fervor been sustained? Has it grown?”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“He is, after all, the author, eternal possessor, initiator, and giver of love. He cannot be destroyed or made less by unrequited love, but to disassociate Him from the pain and grief associated with love is to carve a convenient idol out of wood or stone bearing no resemblance to the God of the Bible. Within those pages, we find a God who cannot be changed by man but can be affected by man. His immutability does not deplete or delete His affections.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“That’s not the way God works. He didn’t choose you because you happened to be in the right place at the right time or because nobody better was in arm’s reach. God’s arm is neither short nor weak (Isaiah 59:1). No one is out of His reach. If He chose you, He did so on purpose. Ephesians 1:4 declares with spectacular clarity, “He chose us in [Christ] before the foundation of the world.” And believe this: if you’ve been chosen by God, there is no room for equivocation: you matter.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Our perceptions can be very convincing, but God tells us the truth. Nothing about our existence is accidental. We were known before we knew we were alive. We were planned and, as a matter of fact, planted on this earth for this moment in time (Acts 17:26).”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they’ve hurt us.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“There’s something I want to clarify here before we get any further: making it matter doesn’t mean making it worth it. Embracing the distinction can be no small relief.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

“Still, from where we sit, even on this side of the Cross, where death gives way to life, sometimes what God has done for us can feel, instead, like something He has done to us.”
― Beth Moore, Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life