Pete Wilson > Quotes

“I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly.”
― Pete Wilson, Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?

“You may be at odds with God right now. You're not happy with the way your life is turning out. You may be praying and pleading with God. But is it possible you don't really want God? Is it possible you just want what you think God can give you? One of the things I believe God is teaching me in my life these days is that at times we want our dreams more than we want God. We want what God does for us instead of just God.”
― Pete Wilson, Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?

“My greatest fear for my life and yours is that we'll just get busy and distracted and settle for a mediocre, unexamined life. It's that we'll just settle into life as usual and never become the person God intended for us to be.”
― Pete Wilson, Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?

“The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“Gratitude is based on not how good your situation is but how good you see your situation to be.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“And your past is not your past if it’s still impacting your present”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“When people ask me how they can know God's will for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God. Beyond that I really don't have any steps.”
― Pete Wilson, Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?

“When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.” —J. I. Packer”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“When I trust in God, I am acting on the conviction that He knows more about real life than I do.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The trust that allows us to embrace uncertainty has three aspects: belief in the provision of God, belief in the promises of God, and belief in the power of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“My hope is based on a God who can do and will do the impossible. My hope is based on a God who has defeated death itself.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“I can have hope when there is no circumstantial reason to have hope, because my hope is not based on what the stock market does, on what you think of me, on life turning out the way I want life to turn out.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“every single person you see—from the homeless woman panhandling on the corner to the movers and shakers in high-rise office suites—carries within a spark of the divine Spirit of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“You will spend your life working through relationships trying to understand your need for love, your inadequacies in love, your desperation for love, and all the time you might miss the signs that your heart is giving you, that you’re searching for God.3”
― Pete Wilson, Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing

“There’s a force that can be equally as damaging as a gun because it means life or death not just to the body but to the soul, and every human being is issued one at birth. It’s called the mouth. Proverbs says, “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit” (Prov. 18:21 NIV). Words are powerful. So much of our baggage—self-esteem, pride, trust, and envy—has been planted in our souls by the words that important people in our life used. With words self-esteems are shaped. Wars started. Murders initiated. Divorces sealed. Children crushed. And while we are sensitive about the words that come to us, we are often careless about what comes out.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“The dreams in your heart are no accident; they were put there by God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We’re becoming “quickaholics” who expect instant results, instant improvement, instant gratification.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.”
― Pete Wilson, Let Hope In: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever

“I believe this is a key to the spiritual transformation that comes through faithful waiting: realizing that God’s power is greater than our circumstances.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“We are not designed to live our lives out of alignment with God. If we don’t periodically recalibrate, something, somewhere is going to get out of whack. And the consequences can be devastating.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“It takes a very special type of heart to keep believing during the hard times. But it helps to remember that God specializes in the unexpected. He is into the unpredictable, the unlooked-for. He is the original author of the surprise ending.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“If we worship something other than the true God—usually, something we have dressed up and named “god”—our lives will reflect the degraded substitute instead of the actual glory of God.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Never forget that you are not trusting to blind chance; you are trusting the God who longs to be with you.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“The cross is more than the starting line of our faith. It is what our faith orbits around. And it’s in the shadow of that cross that I pray you’ll never settle for anything less than the person God created you to be.”
― Pete Wilson, Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing

“And fear can inflict some ugly consequences on our lives. It is perhaps the world’s most pernicious thief. It steals our joy in the present and robs us of our hope for the future.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Faithful waiting involves actively seeking contentment, even amid less-than-optimal circumstances.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“When the treadmill is spinning too fast, learn to step off.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“Max Lucado has written: God loves us right where we are, but he loves us too much to let us stay there.”
― Pete Wilson, What Keeps You Up at Night?: How to Find Peace While Chasing Your Dreams

“But we shouldn't be like everyone else! Our response to the threats we encounter should be so out of the ordinary that people are amazed. Not that we're not concerned, not even that we're not fearful, but we should react differently to threats from the world because our hope is anchored elsewhere.

And that, I believe, is the answer to paralyzing fear, the antidote for fear of the unknown, the alternative to energy-sapping worry. Jesus spells it out in Matthew 6:33. If you want to begin retraining your mind, you have to live out this verse: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (NIV). At this point Jesus isn't just inviting us simply to change our perspective. He's inviting us into a entirely different way of thinking and living. He wants us to make his agenda for the world--his "kingdom"--our first priority.”
― Pete Wilson