All Quotes By Tag: Christian

“If God has called you to something, the most ignorant question you can ask is “Do I have the ability to do this?” Conversely, the wisest question you can ask is, “When can we get started?”

“I don’t have all the answers. More than that, I don’t even know half the questions. But I can rest in the fact that God has both.”

“All of us, minus the part of us we wish to keep for ourselves, adds up to none of us. And that’s typically what we give God.”

“Fear is the result of counting on men instead of leaning on God.”

“The greatest threat that I need to be rescued from is myself. Everything comes a lot easier after that.”

“If God is going to be all that He is, I must reach a point where I am emptied of all that I am. It’s only then that the fullness of God has space in the emptiness of me.”

“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

“What we build certainly might look like a refuge, but if it wasn’t designed by God it’s something more akin to a leaky tent in the middle of a category 5 hurricane on a Monday morning. Nothing about it is good.”

“For if the nature of the story is such that my mother left me with deficits and scars, I can know that the nature of God is such that He will leave me blessings and health.”

“I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”

“When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.”

“Far too often I attempt to create that which God has already created. And maybe what I need to ‘create’ is the understanding that I will always fail to outdo what God has already done.”

“If I take this imagination of mine and multiply it a thousand times over, even then I have yet to touch even the barest hem of heaven.”

“I would rather die by my convictions than die by the culture that defies them.”

“It has been said that my convictions served a generation that lived out its days in the backwaters of an ignorance fed comatose by intellectual stupor. And although I find it painful to say, I would contend that this is in fact an apt description of today’s generation.”