210 Quotes by Beth Moore

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

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If you are not royalty, He is not King.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

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Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

Time doesn't heal anything. only God can heal.

God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.

Never will He hold your hand more tightly than when He is leading you through the dark.

Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

If you are still alive, then God is NOT finished with you!

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

It's never fun when we're in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.

People need to know there is life after salvation! Salvation is not only about eternity. Salvation is the open door to an abundant earthly life in which we enjoy the love and direction of an active God!

We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

God is the Deliverer, but we never know how He might deliver us.

I don't know how, but I know Who.

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

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.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that pride is a problem only for the lost. The most effective means the enemy has to keep believers from being full of the Spirit is to keep us full of ourselves. No wonder the Bible states and restates that God hates pride. It is the enemy of genuine ministry. It is the end of many homes.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

We live by faith. We love by faith.

Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Courage comes from a heart that is Convinced it is loved.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

There is not a single darkness if you life that God cannot bring His light upon.

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the way through? It is a lie from the pit of hell. Today, claim your healing in Christ. It is your right as His child.

The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

Believe that God has heard you.

Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.

Think how our lives might be different if we became people with whom Christ could share the deep things of God.

If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Ultimately, our relationship with Christ is the one thing we cannot do without.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to.

Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.

Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

We have a very real God with a very real presence.

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.

If I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

When we think we’re at the mercy of our circumstances and past, we discount the power that is ours through the Holy Spirit.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

One person can bring favor to many during the storm.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

Better to admit where you're not and ask God's help to get you where you need to be.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

The purpose exceeds the pain.

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

God is always better than he has to be. You can count on that.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.

God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

When you accept the fact that God is determined about you and you add to it your determination about Him, I am telling you there'll be no stopping you from fulfilling the absolutely God-ordained destiny He has for you.

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.

God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts.

When we don’t take God too seriously, others don’t take our leadership too seriously!

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

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.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

God's idea of guarding his heart is to guard himself against diminishing love. He guards his love. Now if that doesn't become revolutionary I am not saying it right.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.

A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Writing songs always trumps whatever else was on the schedule, it really is the most important and can be so fickle, you have to grab it when it's there.

To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.