Quotes about Living

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Limitations can be liberating when your strongest desire is living close to Me.

When you commune with Me in the garden of your heart, both you and I are blessed. This is My way of living in the world—through you! Together we will push back the darkness, for I am the Light of the world.

July 8 EVENING GAZE AT ME; GLANCE AT PROBLEMS—this is the secret of living victoriously. I have called you to live supernaturally, and I have empowered you to do so. Ask My Spirit to help you fix your gaze on Me.

Living well is both a discipline and an art. Concentrate on staying close to Me, the divine Artist.

God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.

God did not give the Bible in order that we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible. Of course, I think we should read the Bible and know it—but it is the specific element of reading for mastery versus reading to be mastered that grows out of this shortcut.

Until we learn to read the Bible as Story, we will not know how to get anything out of the Bible for daily living.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Away off in the flaming sunshine, Cardiff Hill lifted its soft green sides through a shimmering veil of heat, tinted with the purple of distance; a few birds floated on lazy wing high in the air; no other living thing was visible but some cows, and they were asleep.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.