Discover 62 Inspiring Quotes and Sayings from the Book: Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet To Come! (Showing 49 - 62 of 62)
“Jesus didn't come to condemn the world. If God wanted to condemn the world, he would have send us a condemner. But he wanted to save the world, so he sent us a Savior (John 3:17).”
“There is nobody who doesn't deserve to walk into their local church and have others look them in the eye and understand that we are all in the same position. We are all sinful, flawed, selfish, imperfect people - saved only by the grace of God and the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.”
“If you're living under the weight of guilt, of shame, of condemnation, you're not flourishing. You're not ruling and reigning. Scripture tells us the righteous can reign in life. You can rule and have dominion, but if you're living in shame, you're not ruling, but instead being ruled.”
“Instead of having dominion, you're being dominated—dominated by things that have no power or value in your life whatsoever. You can live thinking that you owe it to yourself to feel bad about things that have gone on before. And I'm not saying you should ever take your past sins lightly.”
“What I am saying is that there's real hope in Jesus. Your focus should be on following Christ, not on looking over your shoulder and regretting what you can't change. Shame is a prison, but the door to your cell is open. Jesus calls you to follow him in the freedom of grace. Wise'.”
“Sometimes our feet may fail as we try to walk through the narrow gate. Especially if we make the passage harder than it needs to be, tighter and more confining. When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we're often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.”
“Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.”
“Anxiety and worry work in opposition to inner peace. When you are worried or anxious about something, even something that must be faced and embraced as a process, you leave little room for God's peace.”
“Your Heavenly Father didn't create you to live a life of mediocrity. He created you to live life in the faith lane.”
“If you want to live a big, spacious, abundant life like Jesus, especially when life gets difficult, then make the daily decision to believe God at his Word.”