Deb Kerns > Deb's Quotes

“Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.”
― Lisa bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Submission has nothing to do with equality. Men and women are equal, but we have been assigned different roles. Neither role is superior. The Trinity models this concept. The Persons in the Godhead are equal in power and in substance, but each as a different function. Submission is a position we willingly assume in obedience to Jesus and after His pattern. Submission is an attitude of humilty. Submission is being concerned about the interests of another rather than looking after our own interests. The world tells women that submission is foolish and renders us powerless. Scripture tells us that submission gives access to the power and protection of God.”
― Susan Hunt, Spiritual Mothering

“Servitude is not easy. Obedience is not a one-time decision. Obedience is alife time discipline. But it does bring a cimplicty to life because it settles the issue of who is in control.”
― Susan Hunt, Spiritual Mothering

“Servitude simplifies life.”
― Susan Hunt, Spiritual Mothering

“When a woman is absorbed with God's glory, she will interpret her life according to His Truth”
― Susan Hunt

“Overindulgence in anything eventually enslaves.”
― Susan Hunt, Spiritual Mothering

“Reverent is the way they live. Reverence implies honor, respect, love and obedience. A reverent life is the product of reverent view of God. An exalted view of God will shape a Biblical world view that permeates all of life for the woman of faith. A Biblical belief and value system is foundational for a lifestyle of reverence.”
― Susan Hunt, Spiritual Mothering