When Godly People Do Ungodly Things Quotes

“Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift!”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“if we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Charles Spurgeon's words: “You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Yesterday's war tactics are not going to work today. Today's war tactics are not going to work tomorrow. If we're going to stand firm, we can no longer react. We must pro-act. As the world grows more depraved, the church must grow more alert, more equipped, more sanctified, and more unified “so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life” (Phil. 2:15–16).”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Satan loves isolation. He wants to draw the believer out of healthy relationships into isolated relationships and out of healthy practices into secretive, unhealthy practices. He purposely woos us away from those who might openly recognize the seduction and call his hand on it. Let's beware of anything that separates us from godly people.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“The devil wants to stop any believer from fulfilling his or her God-given destiny. He also knows that most believers feel almost invulnerable after a mountaintop experience with God. Actually, that's when we are most vulnerable because falling into sin is the last thing we're expecting. We're wise to expect times of testing after times of blessing.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been “had” by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defiance, rebellion, and proofs of inauthenticity They have no idea of the suffering involved when someone with a genuine heart for God slips from the path.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Satan so vehemently despises what Christ has done for mortals that one of his chief objectives is to make the clean feel unclean. Oh, how he desires to stain the beautiful bride of Christ. Satan can't make the bride do anything, so he does everything he can to get her to. How is this best accomplished? He tries to corrupt thoughts to manipulate feelings. Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes. Second Timothy 2:26 tells us that Satan's objective in taking people captive is to get them to do his will. If we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of   the sea. (Micah 7:18–19)”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Hebrews 4:12–16: For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power—making it active, operative, energizing and effective; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him], For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a fellow feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace—the throne of God's unmerited favor [to us sinners]; that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need—appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it. (AMP)”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Isaiah 1:16–17 says, “Stop doing wrong, learn to do right!” To learn how to keep my cart from ending up in the ditches, I had to learn to do right! I'm still learning, but thank goodness my cart is staying on the path far more consistently these days. Doing right is a learned behavior that comes from being taught. The word disciple means “pupil” or “learner.” We will never cease to be God's children, but when we cease learning and being teachable, we are no longer disciples.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“God reserves the right to say what gets to enter the gates and what does not. Revelation 21 concludes with these words: “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize the emotions are usually regulated by the mind. If we don't start thinking differently, we will never feel differently.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Your injured heart will be protected by your doing what is right until you feel what is right.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“If the Bible is about anything at all, it is about God having mercy on the pitiful plight of men, forgiving their sins and restoring their lives.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“We quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing His authority over us. In other words, by choosing not to yield to Him.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“Godly accountability is never codependency.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“There is nothing that Satan can do for his evil cause that he does not do. We may be halfhearted, but he never is. He is the very image of ceaseless industry and untiring earnestness. He will do all that can be done in the time of his permitted rage. We may be sure that he will never lose a day.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jer. 29:11). “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the devil, “plans to totally bankrupt you and to harm you, plans to make you hopeless and to destroy your future.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“This one is so important! We'll let David, a man who certainly fell into sin after godliness, introduce it to us through his very private prayer. He wrote:”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“I believe many Christians are just like I used to be. They are convinced they are allowing the Word to do its sanctifying work simply by a steady diet of sermons and Bible studies. They even love the Word. Still they may have unknowingly practiced such selective application that some places remain inadvertently unprotected. No need to wait until something painful happens. You can change your approach today! Begin aggressively asking God to plow through your precious life with His Word. Don't be scared to do it! Be scared not to do it! You're perfectly safe with God.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“You and I realize that the blood Christ shed on the cross is the means of remission for our sins. But Hebrews 10:22 says it is also the means for the complete cleansing of the consciences of those who already know Christ.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction