Pat Summitt Quotes

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

If you want God to do something new in you, you cannot keep doing the same old thing. You have to do something different. And if you do, God will create new capacities within you. There will be new gifts and new revelations. But you've got to pray the price. You'll get out of this what you put into it.

We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.

And falling's just another way to fly.

I am now trying to trust the universe to take care of me and not necessarily rely on other people to make me happy.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.