Beth Moore quotes:

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Christian hedonists don't discount suffering, they just don't give up until they find the gain in loss.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city." Joshua 6:16

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

Cynicism is carnality that thinks its smart.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

The Bible describes a God who is a thousand things to His children, even though some of these are beyond our ability to understand. So when people insist on humanly reasonable theologies to satisfy their need to believe, the lesser god they're buying is not the God of Scripture. We must beware of recreating an image of God that makes us feel better.

Liberty in Christ only becomes a reality in life through knowing and applying the truth of God's Word, not just taking our Bibles to church or keeping them on our nightstands."

A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

We live by faith. We love by faith.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

My soul needed a place it could live. I longed for my defeats to be infrequent visitations, not my victories. Beloved, our personalized lands of earthly promise are places we're invited by God to dwell in Christ. It's high time we stopped dropping in and started taking up residency."

We glorify God to the degree that we externalize the internal existence of the living Christ. A life that glorifies God is not something we suddenly attain. As we spend time in the presence of God, His glory both transforms us and radiates from us."

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors outside the lines. He has no status quo. Even the laws of nature are His to interrupt. As many times as you've prayed before, today may be the day when God sends the answer so swiftly-so divinely-that you're windburned.

Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

The Bible teaches that there are no lost causes. No permanent pit-dwellers except those who refuse to leave.

Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.

God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.

Dirt is dirt, and we've all got it no matter where we come from. I'm not sure Christ sees one kind of dirt as dirtier than another. One thing is for sure: His blood is able to bleach any stain left by any kind of dirt.

What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the way through? It is a lie from the pit of hell. Today, claim your healing in Christ. It is your right as His child.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.

Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going to take us. It is like nothing we have ever experienced. You are accepted in Christ, never rejected by Him.

Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?

Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34

Guys, don't follow Elkanah's example. Get involved at home. If God has given you a wife, put the effort into understanding her. Is it an impossible task? Most assuredly. But sometimes the challenging jobs are the most rewarding. Wives need men who engage and participate, not abdicate as parent and spouse. For too many husbands the lights are on, but nobody is home.

They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Revelation 12:11

Along this path of ministry, God has used an approach over and over again that I've finally come to more readily expect. He has taught me to listen to the repetitive requests of the body of Christ, and I will often discover what He wants me to do. Case in point: I had no plan whatsoever to write women's

Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?

For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

A head full of biblical knowledge without a heart passionately in love with Christ is terribly dangerous - a stronghold waiting to happen. The head is full, but the heart and soul are still unsatisfied.

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.

Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

As a mother you are only as happy as your saddest child

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didnâ??t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.

You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.