Quotes from Lynn Austin

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

While I don't have to leave home to find God's oasis, I do have to search for it, pursuing God in prayer and trusting Him to take care of me when all other hope is gone. He promised that "If...you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deuteronomy 4:29).

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

Even when bad things happen, He can use them for good.

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry... To have faith in Yahweh is to know that there is a realm of the spirit beyond the comprehension of our minds... Trusting in Molech... or trusting in your own wisdom and intellect - there's no difference in God's eyes. It's all idolatry.

When we feel unworthy in His presence it's because we glimpse His holiness.

Everyone had forgotten her. But that's the way Penny was-- so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma's house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people's lives as if watching a movie.

He had lived to please himself instead of God all those years, giving little more than lip service to His holy laws. And now when Zechariah cried out to God, his numberless sins swallowed up his prayers before they reached heaven. His guilt filled the yawning gulf between him and God.

You can't serve God by acting contrary to His nature

I do not believe in witches, but if I did, I'd swear you are one.

Every time you compromise, something inside your spirit dies a little

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

Our daughters aren't the same people we are, nor are they extensions of ourselves. They are unique individuals in God's eyes, responsible to Him for the choices they make, not to their mothers.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.

I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.

If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby's face to know God existed.

The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God.

We serve a promise-keeping God, a God of miracles. My vigorous attempts to save myself, like Herod's, will never succeed. But what is impossible for man, is always possible with God. When it seems as though all is lost and God asks, "Can these bones live?" let my answer be, "Sovereign Lord, you know.

Thirst is a symptom of need, the body's way of telling me to take action. If I don't listen, I end up dehydrated and all sorts of bad things can happen, including loss of consciousness and death. Spiritual dryness is also a symptom: Something is wrong! Take action! I'm drying up! I need God. My soul's longing for God is as never-ending as my physical need for water. And spiritual dehydration leads to spiritual death.

As long as we have breath we can hope, can't we?