Quotes from Joanna Weaver

You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. LUKE 10:41–42

Be anxious about nothing. Be prayerful about everything. Be thankful for all things.

We grow like what we look at, and if we spend our lives looking at our hateful selves, we shall become more and more hateful. Do we not find as a fact that self-examination, instead of making us better, always seems to make us worse?

To think that Christ gave us so much only to have us experience so little brings tears to my eyes.

If Satan can't make me fall away from God's grace, he will do everything he can to keep me from fully embracing God's grace. Satan wants me—and he wants you!—to be so constantly preoccupied with what we're not that we never get around to realizing all that God is.

The fact is, until we stop doubting God's goodness, we can't experience God's love.

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine… I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb

It wasn't long before the gracious hostess in Martha collapsed and the Queen of Hearts took over, pointing fingers and screaming, "Off with their heads! Off with everyone's head!

Putting our earthly nature to death isn't something we can do apart from God. It isn't meant to be a renovation we attempt on our own or a charade we play at until it becomes reality. Believe me, I've tried it that way, and it just doesn't work. And yet, while the Holy Spirit wants to help us, we must initiate the act. For in a very real sense, only we can choose to die.