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Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First QUOTES

1 " There is no one safer than Jesus. No worry of betrayal, no worry He will turn His back and walk away. He’s never told a thing I’ve told Him. He’s never been absent when I needed Him most. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

2 " Any of us who have become less than who God created us to be are not really who we are. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

3 " Too often the unfinished us is blind to what the Spirit-shaped us can be over time. Lies have felt true, damning, and permanent. We aren’t weak for falling for them. We are human. But we need to put the truth of Jesus over them now. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

4 " Craving the attention of man produces in us a desire to stay concerned with our own interests over the hurts of the world. God is not in that. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

5 " You simply find a new way to serve that works now, and you do it with all your heart. There doesn’t have to be a massive heart breakdown about this and a big deal made over what was that no longer is. Mourn it if you need, then move on. Today is a beautiful day with a new opportunity to see what Jesus wants to use your life to do. Let Him surprise you with new joys that come from the age-old plan. Let God move you where He wants to use you now. If you hang on to where He used you before, you say no to the goodness of what lies ahead. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

6 " Sugarcoating the real stuff that bonds us in our humanity robs us of community. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

7 " We spend more time figuring out how to hide our hide our truth than we do how to heal it. The hiding may buy us some time the momentary pain the truth brings, but it does a crazy amount more damage. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

8 " We spend more time figuring out how to hide our truth than we do how to heal it. The hiding may buy us some time from the momentary pain the truth brings, but it does a crazy amount of more damage. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

9 " Part of healing, I've found, is learning exactly how to eat the elephant in front of you instead of living in fear it will trample you down. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

10 " Nothing bad ever comes from the light. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

11 " Until the desire for healing became greater than the fear of being honest, you weren't going anywhere. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

12 " Lies, especially the ones you want to believe , can be convincing. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

13 " If you choose to put Jesus in His place of preeminence, He will bless your life. He will sort out things that you’ve never been able to sort out before. He will do a perfect job at managing the imperfect life you haven’t been capable of managing on your own. If that sounds good to you, I would just ask you to dive in and read this book to the end for the full picture. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

14 " But, oh my word, be impressed with Jesus.
The One who thought up all this and you and me and the people we so admire and think are the greatest people we have ever known.
The One who is holding this whole world together right this very second, and if He were to let go of it for one second, it would crash and blow away into nothingness because without Him there is nothing left.
The One who is our real place, soft place, holy place, honest place, true place, loyal place, and eternal place of of Home. May we never get over Him. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

15 " If we trust a perfect God, we will trust that His version of us is the best version, and we will want none of the subtracted version we have become. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

16 " Sometimes along the way we get the ida that it's noble to keep secrets for other people., cover for them in their wrongdoing even at the expense of our own souls. Please her me say this, loud and clear: it is not spiritual to cover for people, especially in lieu of our own healing. Jesus would never ask us to wound our own soul to allow someone else to thrive in sin. Other believers personal lives are under His ownership, not ours. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

17 " Real over pretty. Love over judgment. Holiness over freedom. Service over spotlight. Steady over hype. Wisdom over knowledge. Honesty over hiding. Commitment over mood. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

18 " Jesus-over-everything lifestyle or move us away from it, and they are plain and simple. Real over pretty. Love over judgment. Holiness over freedom. Service over spotlight. Steady over hype. Wisdom over knowledge. Honesty over hiding. Commitment over mood. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

19 " We aren’t Jesus, so the laying down of our lives would pale in comparison to the act of sacrifice on the cross, but we can sacrifice in our daily life. How? By standing against violence and racism (saying no to racist jokes and stereotypes). By defending widows and orphans in whatever way God leads (James 1:27). By refusing to allow gossip or division in our midst. By taking people in and by clothing and feeding them. Pray and use the imagination God gave you and think out of the box—the opportunities to “lay down our lives” for others are endless. If we are looking to love people, God will surely give us the chance. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First

20 " We have nothing to do with God’s gift of salvation and everything to do with the acceptance of it and the ongoing process of growing our faith. And yet in that there is choice and free will. The promise of eternity does not waver based on our poor decisions after salvation, but the keeping of our minds, bodies, and souls is a choice-by-choice partnership with Christ. My pastor, Jay Stewart, recently spoke something powerful and profound over us one Sunday that crystallizes this point: “What’s better—to be able to say, ‘I am forgiven and saved’ or ‘I have become like Christ?’” We can get technical about this and argue about how salvation is the most important thing, and on the core premise, I will agree. Nothing matters if we don’t first choose to follow Christ. But to rest on our status of heaven-bound rather than pursue holiness and sanctification (the process of becoming like Christ) exposes our desire for a lazy faith. God’s plan is not for us to accept salvation and sit with it. It is for us to share its miracle with the world. "

― Lisa Whittle , Jesus Over Everything: Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First