Nancy Leigh DeMoss > Quotes

“I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself”
― nancy leigh demoss

“God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.”
― Nancy Leigh Demoss

“True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it’s true. And He’s not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“When we as God’s children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

“Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“Keep in mind that it is not enough that we should just read the Word. The object is that the words that are printed on the page would become indelibly written on our hearts. God never intended that we should merely get onto His Word-His intent is that the Word should get into us.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God’s hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being “simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“Unlike any other book that has ever been written, the Bible is alive; and it comes to with a personal Tutor-the Holy Spirit, who lives in us.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“Our malady is not "low self-esteem," nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“As we walk through each day, responding to the needs of those around us, we can become physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. God has a never-ending supply of grace, strength, and wisdom available that He wants to flow through us to others. And we need to keep coming back into His presence to get our supply replenished.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“We need to learn how to deny ourselves, so we can do that which does not come naturally—to truly love God and others.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“The fact is, we will all be broken—sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness—we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy

“Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“What we believe about God is crucial because it affects what we believe about everything else.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy

“You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Whatever approach you take to reading the Bible, don't let yourself become a slave to the method. Don't get so caught up in the mechanics that you miss the point.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“if it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn’t right.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free

“The sun and moon keep their appointed seasons; the animals get up when God tells them to get up and they lie down when God directs them to do so. What is the result? “The earth is satisfied” (verse 13); “they are filled with good” (verse 28). Did you catch that? To surrender to the Creator’s control is not onerous or burdensome; it is, in fact, the place of blessing, fullness, and peace. There is no evidence in this passage of any stress, struggle, or strain. Why? Because the creation is not vying with the Creator for control.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy

“We know Jesus was God. But He was also a man-He got tired; He got hungry; He knew what it was to have crowds pressing around Him all the time; He knew what it was to have His privacy invaded. But He kept right on letting the crowds into His life. He kept on teaching, healing, confronting the powers of hell- and never a cross or impatient word.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life

“I can whine –or– I can worship!”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy

“The consequences of an ungrateful spirit are not as readily seen as, say, those of a contagious disease. But they are no less deadly. Western civilization has fallen prey to an epidemic of ingratitude. Like a poisonous vapor, this subtle sin is polluting our lives, our homes, our churches, and our culture.”
― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy