Quotes About Journey

Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

Forgiveness is the weapon. Our choices moving forward are the battlefield. Moving on is the journey.

The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

Yes, I want to lose weight. But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices daily. And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.

Our decisions aren't just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we're about to head. Show me a decision and I'll show you a direction.

I know I must walk through God's process before I see His fulfilled promise.

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.

Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.

It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways.

It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways." Overcoming

The promise is a glorious hope to hang on to for the future. But it's His presence in the process that will steady our hope for today.

I realized that most times it's not the big things along my spiritual journey that tempt me to get off track. It's a culmination of small daily aggravations I know God could fix but doesn't. But what if instead of seeing these aggravations as inconveniences, I saw them as reminders to draw near to God?

Disappointment isn't proof that God is withholding good things from us. Sometimes it's His way of leading us Home.

Hurting but still hoping—that is the human journey.

Imperfect changes are slow steps of progress wrapped in grace … imperfect progress.

This journey will require you to make some tough sacrifices, but I've come to look at this process as embracing healthy choices rather than denying myself.

Don't we all long to see God at work? His activity around us, in us, and through us is the greatest adventure there is. The God of the universe wants to use you!

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it' " (30:21)?

What's a decision you are in the midst of making? Chase it down. If you do this, where will it most likely lead? And then what? And then? Keep going until you walk it all the way out.

But disappointment isn't proof that God is withholding good things from us. Sometimes it's His way of leading us Home.

So I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness. And today I'd decided ahead of time I would have apple slices for a snack.

Deciding ahead of time what I will and will not eat is a crucial part of this journey.