Beth Moore Quotes

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.

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!

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

One person can bring favor to many during the storm.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

I don’t want any of the things that I fear to happen, but this I know, if they do, my God will take care of me.

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

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

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

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

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

Believe that God has heard you.

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

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

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

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

For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us free. If you are holding anything in your craving for satisfaction right now, would you be willing to acknowledge it as a lie? Even if you feel you can't let go of it right this moment, would you lift it before Him-perhaps literally lifting your fisted hand as a symbol-and confess it as an idol? God does not condemn you. He calls you.

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

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

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

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

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

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

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.