April Bohnert > April's Quotes

“Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.”
― Beth Moore, Daniel: Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy - Member Book

“What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.”
― Beth Moore

“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.”
― Beth Moore, Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“My name is Pride. I am a cheater. I cheat you of your God-given destiny . . . because you demand your own way. I cheat you of contentment . . . because you “deserve better than this.” I cheat you of knowledge . . . because you already know it all. I cheat you of healing . . . because you’re too full of me to forgive. I cheat you of holiness . . . because you refuse to admit when you’re wrong. I cheat you of vision . . . because you’d rather look in the mirror than out a window. I cheat you of genuine friendship . . . because nobody’s going to know the real you. I cheat you of love . . . because real romance demands sacrifice. I cheat you of greatness in heaven . . . because you refuse to wash another’s feet on earth. I cheat you of God’s glory . . . because I convince you to seek your own. My name is Pride. I am a cheater. You like me because you think I’m always looking out for you. Untrue. I’m looking to make a fool of you. God has so much for you, I admit, but don’t worry . . . If you stick with me You’ll never know.”
― Beth Moore, Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift!”
― Beth Moore, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

“My name is Pride. I am a cheater. I cheat you of your God-given destiny . . . because you demand your own way. I cheat you of contentment . . . because you “deserve better than this.” I cheat you of knowledge . . . because you already know it all. I cheat you of healing . . . because you’re too full of me to forgive. I cheat you of holiness . . . because you refuse to admit when you’re wrong. I cheat you of vision . . . because you’d rather look in the mirror than out a window. I cheat you of genuine friendship . . . because nobody’s going to know the real you. I cheat you of love . . . because real romance demands sacrifice. I cheat you of greatness in heaven . . . because you refuse to wash another’s feet on earth. I cheat you of God’s glory . . . because I convince you to seek your own. My name is Pride. I am a cheater. You like me because you think I’m always looking out for you. Untrue.”
― Beth Moore, Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“God’s specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don’t have the need that exceeds His power.”
― Beth Moore, Believing God

“We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.”
― Beth Moore, A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David

“Lord, please help me to revere Your name. You have promised that, if I do, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings and that I will go out and leap like a calf released from the stall. (Mal. 4:2)”
― Beth Moore, Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds

“To feel no conviction of sin for a length of time is a serious sign that the Holy Spirit may not reside in us. We can quench the Spirit, but we cannot disable Him.”
― Beth Moore, Jesus, the One and Only

“God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God’s Word is alive and active in me.”
― Beth Moore, Believing God

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We are not in love. Not the way I’ve been told
being in love feels like. But we have been sleeping
beside each other for so many nights and I
am the most beautiful doormat you have ever
walked over.”
― Clementine von Radics

“I rest because he has said nothing would take his love from me, or you. I can’t say that would be true of any other human kind of love. In fact, it’s so different from “regular” love that it’s hard to believe that it could be really true. So God pursues us, courts us, and woos us to remind us. As if he wants to keep us mindful that he doesn’t get tired of us, he isn’t frustrated by our moods or by our irritating habits or put off by uncombed hair or out-of-style clothes. We are free to place the whole weight of our needs on him, to bring him our deepest questions, to look to him for acceptance and validation. And unlike any other relationship, the God who designed us will not lean, crumble, struggle, stagger, or falter in any way. This is a love that changes everything.”
― Nicole Johnson, Fresh-Brewed Life Revised and Updated: A Stirring Invitation to Wake Up Your Soul

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”
― T D Jakes

“Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.”
― Alistair Begg, The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances

“We mustn’t allow our circumstances and disappointments to become the excuse for the choices we make in life. God is greater than all of that, and He can bring beauty out of ashes. Our trials come, Augustine said, “to prove us and to improve us.”
― Alistair Begg, The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances

“But it didn’t stay that way. Sin entered the world, and since then everything has been a mess. Our world is sick, and none of us are immune to the infection. At our cores we’re sinners. We purposely rebel against our Creator. We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God’s goodness, but with sin that mirror was fractured and the reflection is distorted. Instead of following God, we assume we’re wiser and follow our own misguided intuition. We’re choosing what we think will make us happy, but in the process we’ve made God angry. He despises sin and He will judge us for it. We’re beautifully made, but tragically broken.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“When we choose wicked images over God, we’re pulling ourselves farther and farther away from Him. Imagine you are in prison and can only talk to your loved ones on an old phone through a glass wall. It’s not that God won’t hear you when you speak to Him, but there will be a wedge between you. There’s intimacy that you cannot have with God while chasing after counterfeit intimacy with men or women on computer screens. For every moment you seek your satisfaction elsewhere, you will not be seeking it in God.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“The myth of procrastination is that it will somehow be easier later. The truth is, it’s never easy, and putting it off only makes it harder.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“Apparently it was okay for me to like Jesus as long as I didn’t get too serious and actually start to do what He said.”
― Trip Lee, Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.”
― Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
― Brene Brown

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
― Thomas Merton

“I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one's emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one's pearls to the pigs.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
― Abraham Lincoln