Shellie Rushing Tomlinson > Quotes

“Southern Mamas are known for being subtle, like a freight train.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy: The Belle of All Things Southern Dishes on Men, Money, and Not Losing Your Midlife Mind

“One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can’t hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like “all that”. We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody’s bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won’t let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you’ll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

“All the building tools you and I will ever need are found between the pages of His living Word and in listening to His Spirit who comes to live in us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“We can choose to plug into otherworldly strength—or not.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Sometimes we agree to ride on God’s handlebars—as long as we still get to steer. Bad idea! God wants to power your trip and steer it, too. Are you scared? That’s okay. It’s even a bit healthy. Think of it as “hanging on for dear life” on the adventure of a lifetime.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“God doesn’t begin His work in us as believers by telling us to behave. The law did a stellar good job of proving that we don’t know how,”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Intimate discussions are an authentic mark of all close relationships.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“our heavenly Father wants us to share our faith and His amazing love with those around us.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“present ourselves before it, God will use His Word to cut away the hardened gray tissue of our hearts, revealing healthy pink flesh that beats for Him and pulses with the promise of eternal life. But it must be said: the same razor-sharp Word that brings healing to those who respect it and live by it will one day lay open every heart and bring judgment to those who have chosen not to heed it.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I talk a lot about this, and I’ll continue to share it as long as God gives me breath: introspection is the enemy of anyone who wants to grow closer to Jesus.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“so critical that we believers continually recognize how much we need Jesus and resort to Him.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“we’ve been born again, we have new names, too. It’s not what others call us; and our new name doesn’t allude to mistakes some might not let us forget. Crank up a praise song, and let’s celebrate!”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“We sorely need Jesus to seize our stubborn wills, grasp our “this is my life” mentalities, and prevail over our to-do lists. For we won’t be overcomers until we are overcome.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“can’t stand on these precedents unless you know them, and you can’t know them unless you read the Book!”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“God speaks. He speaks through nature, He speaks through His Word, and He speaks to our spirits. Recognizing His voice is about setting our hearts on His channel and choosing His instruction as our go-to Source, listening for Him today and tomorrow and the day after that until we come to know the voice that calms the waters and soothes our souls.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“eternally grateful that the Good Lord doesn’t play that game! I’m so glad He doesn’t say, “Clean yourselves up as best you can and then I’ll be your Savior.” I’d be washing and wiping without a hope. Nor does He say, “I’ll be your Savior, but then you’ll have to be perfect.” I’d be doomed again! On the contrary, Romans 5:8 says that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus, the sinless substitute, exchanges our sins for His salvation, and then He teaches us how to live a victorious life.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“person can read the Bible for years without coming to love and hunger for its holy truth—if, that is, the reading is done out of compulsion. Why?”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Jesus saw who Peter was and who Peter would be. That’s good, but it gets better! Peter’s actions may have forever colored his reputation in our eyes, but not in the eyes of his Master.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“celebrate the incredible intimacy of our heavenly Father who sees the end from the beginning. I’m His favorite. And so are you. And you, and you, and you.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. 1 PETER 3:15 NIV”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Immanuel, God with us, is that we don’t have to be dependent on others for a word that will feed us—that will lift our spirits and bring comfort during stressful circumstances. The Bread of Life has been prepared for all eternity. Come on, folks. Let’s open our Bibles, grow up, and feed ourselves.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“The strongest believers become increasingly more dependent on Jesus, not less.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“the trenches are where I want to be found, too. My goal is to live for Christ in the trenches of what we call this Christian walk. As believers, we’re all called to be there.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“Scrimping and saving is great economic advice, my friends, but it is poor practice in our spiritual lives.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I want skeptics to witness my love for Jesus and my desperate desire for more of Him and have their indifferent and hard hearts shaken to the core until they have to begin looking for Him themselves. For the Bible tells us that we can’t seek Him without finding Him, and my experience has been that to know Him is to love Him.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“We can find Him in the crowd; but to know Him, to enjoy His sweet fellowship, we’re going to need to draw aside.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“There is nothing good in us apart from Christ, but we’re welcome to draw on the bank of heaven with every breath we take.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“but if you’re a believer, you are called to shine. Whatever that looks like on you, shine on.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“The Bible says we’re transformed by beholding Him; and if we dare bear His name, we should carry His likeness. For wherever I go, there I AM.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday

“I’d done my best to leave every child there with that message: “You matter. And it’s not based on your performance or the status of your family. If you breathe in and out, you have purpose.”
― Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Devotions for the Hungry Heart: Chasing Jesus Six Days from Sunday