Beth Moore Quotes

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

No one can live under degradation.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

The slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline and thus made unfit for slavery.

It is a momentous thing to be the instrument, under Providence, of the liberation of a race.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

I don't care what people think anymore. I don't think I've got anything to prove.

I have nothing to prove to anyone.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to those within, promulgate the year of the Lord's mercy... Bring into the world the hope of God, which is Christ the Lord Who rose from the dead and lives and reigns forever.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

I didn't need taming. I needed saving.