Quotations

I love, love, love quotes. If you've ever seen my Facebook status', you know I post a lot of them. So I decided it would be fun to compile a bunch of the quotes I love for a blog post. I'm sure I'll have several posts like this one in the future, because I'm always finding more than tug at my heart. And I know a post with some of my favorite scriptures will be posted at some point.

"Little faith hopes that God will do what He says; strong faith knows that He will; and great faith believes that He has already done it." ~Charles Stanley

"If there is pride in your life, God knows exactly what you need: a good dose of failure." ~Charles Stanley

“Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.” ~Anso Coetzer

"God made us for community. Part of community is recognizing when someone doesn't show up." ~Mike Beresford

"If we choose not to cultivate our hope in Him, where will we place our hope? Is there anything greater, more equitable, more powerful, more reliable, and truer than God?" ~Dr. Joe Stowell

"A woman of true beauty is a woman who in the depths of her soul is at rest, trusting God because she has come to know Him to be worthy of her trust. She exudes a sense of calm, a sense of rest, and invites those around her to rest as well. She speaks comfort; she knows that we live in a world at war, that we have a vicious enemy, and our journey is through a broken world. But she also knows that because of God all is well, that all will be well. A woman of true beauty offers others the grace to be and the room to become. In her presence, we can release the tension and pressure that so often grip our hearts. We can also breathe in the truth that God loves us and He is good." ~Captivating

"He doesn't compare us to anyone else. He doesn't have a list of what Christians should be and do at certain phases of their Christian walk. He accepts us individually and works with us where we are. Yet He constantly challenges us to go beyond where we are. And He throws a great big party whenever reach a milestone or make a spiritual breakthrough.

'Did you see that?'

He asks, turning to the angels and pointing to earth.

'That's my girl.'"

~Having a Mary Spirit

"We are safer in the storm God sends us, than in a calm when we are befriended by the world." ~Jeremy Taylor

"My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me." ~Charles Spurgeon

"When fear seeps into your heart, stop and consider the Lord’s character and motive: He is holy and sinless; He has infinite wisdom, perfect knowledge, and an eternal perspective; He loves you and has the power to work all things for your good (Rom. 8:28). Now compare your credentials to His. Who do you think would make a better master of your life?" ~Charles Stanley

Jesus said, "Go and make disciples," not "make converts to your opinions." ~Oswald Chambers

"Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be the weakness of being too afraid to fall. If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified. There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled. One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God. Remain spiritually tenacious." ~Oswald Chambers

"Dream your biggest dream; God's Dream is bigger." ~Jimmy Draper

"At some point we started coming to church and quit being the church." ~ Matt Carter

"Ely's only cry over chopped onions." ~Matthew

"Somehow my story is a park of Your plan, so here I am." ~Downhere