Quotes from Beth Moore

The English word human literally means "a creature of earth," from the word humus, or ground.[1] The humble word humble comes from the same origin and means "lowly, near the ground."[2] God appointed gravity to keep us there.

I don't believe God allows surrendered hearts to continue to long for things He will not ultimately grant in one way or another. Our disappointment with God is often the result of our small thinking.

Whenever you feel alone, rejected, or misunderstood, stand your situation up next to David's. The boy had as pure a heart as humanly possible, and his own family blasted him. Ouch. I don't want to minimize your hurts, but in David you can certainly find someone who has been there, done that.

He gives us a sudden splash of happiness here and there so we can wet our toes in what we'll be swimming in for eternity.

Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been "had" by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defiance, rebellion, and proofs of inauthenticity They have no idea of the suffering involved when someone with a genuine heart for God slips from the path.

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

God stated unapologetically that conditions exist under which "you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do." But the only way we are going to impact our generation is to prove that our faith in Christ is real and that it works.

If not for God's compassion, His very presence in our midst would kill us. We really have little clue who we're dealing with. The good news is: God wants us to seek Him and find Him.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism. Hezekiah believed he was right with God because of what he had done.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8

Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will." Matthew 26:39

The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart's tribute to the privilege to love.

The devil wants to stop any believer from fulfilling his or her God-given destiny. He also knows that most believers feel almost invulnerable after a mountaintop experience with God. Actually, that's when we are most vulnerable because falling into sin is the last thing we're expecting. We're wise to expect times of testing after times of blessing.

Agape is an obedient response of availability to God, not a feeling. But, although it is not a feeling, its ultimate end is a feeling.

Jesus loves us. He is not scandalized by our failures. He is not limited in what he can do with what's left after family disasters. Nothing is beyond his redemption when he is invited in. No one with a whit of breath left is beyond the reach of his grace.

John 1:16: "From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

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

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.

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

We have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:7

We live sacrificially when we're outside the will of God, giving up all sorts of things that were meant to be ours in Christ. We want to claim those things back, but in the process we're going to be putting a few other things on the altar.

When we judge a brother's or sister's sin as so much worse than our own, we are like lepers counting spots. "She has more than I do.