Quotes from Jill Briscoe

God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.

You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.

the secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

Courage isn't a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

The release comes when first you realize you are indeed hopelessly inadequate, and then you realize for this you have God! You can't; He can! You are inadequate; He isn't. How

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

God is working on two fronts all the time. As He works to transform society, He works to transform the transformers!

Here's how it works. God transports us to a situation. There is no such thing as happenstance in the life of a child of God. His intent is to use fallible people to give out His infallible truth to a world living in error. He wants to use weak people who love and obey Him to transform the society to which they have been transported. Then, as we tell others, our own lives are changed in the process.

Courage isn't a feeling that you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is doing it scared.

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.