Beth Moore
I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.Collection: Morning
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.Collection: Relationship
I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.Collection: Teacher
I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.Collection: Failure
I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.Collection: Courage
When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.Collection: Imagination
The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.Collection: Relationship
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.Collection: Respect
I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.Collection: Relationship
I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.
God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?
Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
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.
My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.
When someone does not want what God has to offer, He is not going to force it on them.
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.
We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.
Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.
I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.
I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.
As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.
We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.
The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.
I've never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.
We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.
I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.
I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.
I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.
I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.
I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
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 has been my lifelong thing.
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.Collection: Purpose
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.Collection: Believe
Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.Collection: Light
We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.Collection: Storm
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.Collection: Situation
Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Voice
Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.Collection: Deception
A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.Collection: Motivation