Gloria Gaynor Quotes

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I have so much confidence in the reality of Jesus that I feel no pressure to try to make people act or be a certain way. I'm banking everything on the fact that God actually changes people.

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.

When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.