God S Design Quotes

“Don't be a prisoner of people's opinion of you, become liberated in God's design of you. You are beautifully made.”
― Farshad Asl

“Is Jesus' whole body thriving and stronger than ever today because for over two millennia 'the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work' (Ephesians 4:16 NIV)? Do the world's headlines read, 'See how they love one another!'--not of tight-knit homogeneous subgroups of Christians, but of a bone-deep oneness that inexplicably thrives within wide-ranging diversity and denominational and theological differences and reaches across the gender divide?

In two thousand years, how far have we come in attaining that kaleidoscopic trinitarian oneness Jesus longs to see? How is God's reputation in the world enhanced because of us? Has the world changed for the better, is the Enemy in retreat, and is justice flourishing in the earth because the Blessed Alliance of men and women is formidable and fully deployed for God's kingdom?”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“we reflect his image most clearly when we do things his way.

His divine design reveals his desire for the kind of intimate parent-child relationship with his children that we long for in our human families, whether we're the parent or the child. Like a proud parent, he envisioned taking pleasure in seeing us launch out boldly on the grand adventure he had in store for us, delighting in our relentless curiosity as we explore the world he created and put to use the good giftst he planted inside us. He anticipated the satisfaction of giving a hearty 'Well done!' to each of his children at the end of our journeys.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“Men and women working together actually predates men working with men and women working with women. It would be one thing if God confined this male/female team to home and family and then mapped out the remaining territory into separate spheres for men and for women. But he didn't do that. Their mission--together--is to rule and subdue the whole earth on his behalf. Men and women together.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“No tactic of the Enemy and no entrenched blindness on our part have the power to deter God from seeing his vision for us to completion. God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. 'And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everyting in heaven and on earth' (Ephesians 1:10)--including his sons and daughters.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“Marriage is not ours to reinvent—it is God’s design, a covenant of love that reflects Christ and His bride.”
― Guy Mellott, Love Defined: A description of true submission