Beth Moore Quotes

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

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.

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

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.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.