Quotes About God's best

When I ask, "What are you afraid of?" I'm asking, "What is it that immobilizes you? What is stealing your joy and destroying your hope? What is robbing you of sleep, night after night? What keeps you from living by faith and being a risk taker? What keeps you from giving your life wholly to a loving God who wants nothing but the best for you?

By making the Word our final authority and making a quality decision to place our faith in God at all costs, we experience His best in every situation.

God's best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there.

At the heart of sin lies a lack of trust that God intends the best for us.

C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."1

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God's best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle.