Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.
Trusting God’s plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.
Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.
When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.
God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.
The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.
Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.
Saying yes all the time won’t make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.
Don’t allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.
Like a tree, a woman can’t carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she’ll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.
So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.
We aren’t supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we’d have no need for Jesus. And it’s through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we’ll let them.
Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.
No, it’s not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can’t ever possibly meet.
The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.
I’m not who that guy says I am. I’m not who that girl says I am. I’m not who social media likes and comments say I am. I’m not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I’m not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I’m going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.” The more intimacy like this that I have with God, the more secure my true identity is.
There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God’s call for her to be set apart.
Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.
People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.
Jesus doesn’t participate in the rat race. He’s into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling – all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.