Created for His Glory Quotes

“Impatience is a particularly dangerous habit of the heart because everything worthwhile takes time. Good marriages take time. Spiritual maturity takes time. Financial stability takes time. Effective ministry takes time. Wisdom takes time. People who are not willing to take time cannot have any of the above.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“When they despair, rather than acknowledging the poverty of their relationship with Jesus Christ, they seek to medicate the “down” feelings10 or distract themselves with activity.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“More and more believers are tasting the same despair the world lives in because they have chosen to “walk . . . as other Gentiles walk, in the [emptiness] of their mind.”8”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“He was right. Without God at the center, it is hopeless; it is empty; and it was designed by God to be so. The theme of Ecclesiastes could be stated, “Life is supposed to taste like cardboard if you insist on eating the box!”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“The point is that all of life is “pointless”—vanity or emptiness—unless something else is involved that transcends the pointlessness.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself. You must say to your soul: “Why art thou cast down”—what business have you to be disquieted? You must turn on yourself, upbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself: “Hope thou in God”—instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way. And then you must go on to remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people [who discourage you], and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: “I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is [also] the health of my countenance, and my God.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“For the illuminated believer, however, the unifying and satisfying element in every circumstance is always the glory of God, not some sentimental, rose-colored view of the situation that makes him feel better about it.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory

“Strong Christian homes cannot be built out of weak Christians.”
― Jim Berg, Created for His Glory