Quotes about Life

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

Please don't be dismayed if you feel you are not already living a life that glorifies God! He never sheds light on our weaknesses or shortcomings for the sake of condemnation (Rom. 8:1). God makes us aware of hindrances so He can set us free!

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21

Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either.

My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life. Psalm 63:3

Only love compels to the death. Dear one, life is hard. Opposition is huge. Circumstances will inevitably happen in all our lives that will defy all discipline, determination, and conviction. Love keeps burning when everything else disintegrates in an ashen heap. Pray for this one thing more than you pray for your next breath. I am convinced love is everything.

Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold of eternal life, to which you were called and have made a good confession. 1 Timothy 6:12

By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

They still had much to learn about Christ's complete jurisdiction. He can meet our spiritual needs, our emotional needs, and our physical needs. He is both deeply spiritual and entirely practical. Christ was teaching them to see Him, His power, and His authority in every area of life.

To a human race insatiably attracted to attractiveness, God offered a Savior with "no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). We keep looking for a beautiful way to a beautiful life, when as God would have it, the only way to find it is through an unbeautiful cross.

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn't help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63

You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. Psalm 56:13