Jodi Benson Quotes

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it taught me that faith is enough, but here's three more things left just in case. There's always things left to do to be closer to God.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?