Beth Moore Quotes

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.

The mark of spirituality is the fragrance of Christ in our lives and the fragrance of Christ in every aspect of who we are as a person.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.