When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction QUOTES

1 " Beloved, are you being sifted? Has God permitted the enemy to launch a full-scale attack against you? God knows what He's doing. He isn't looking the other way, and He's not being mean to you. Maybe this is the only way He can get you to attend to the old so He can do something new. Grab onto Him for dear life! Give Him full reign to remove anything in you that needs to go. Hasten the end of the process. Sift, dear one. Sift! "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

2 " Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

3 " You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

4 " If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

5 " Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

6 " Charles Spurgeon's words: “You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

7 " if we change the way we think, before long our thoughts change the way we feel. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

8 " One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

9 " Yesterday's war tactics are not going to work today. Today's war tactics are not going to work tomorrow. If we're going to stand firm, we can no longer react. We must pro-act. As the world grows more depraved, the church must grow more alert, more equipped, more sanctified, and more unified “so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life” (Phil. 2:15–16). "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

10 " Satan so vehemently despises what Christ has done for mortals that one of his chief objectives is to make the clean feel unclean. Oh, how he desires to stain the beautiful bride of Christ. Satan can't make the bride do anything, so he does everything he can to get her to. How is this best accomplished? He tries to corrupt thoughts to manipulate feelings. Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes. Second Timothy 2:26 tells us that Satan's objective in taking people captive is to get them to do his will. If we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

11 " Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been “had” by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defiance, rebellion, and proofs of inauthenticity They have no idea of the suffering involved when someone with a genuine heart for God slips from the path. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

12 " The devil wants to stop any believer from fulfilling his or her God-given destiny. He also knows that most believers feel almost invulnerable after a mountaintop experience with God. Actually, that's when we are most vulnerable because falling into sin is the last thing we're expecting. We're wise to expect times of testing after times of blessing. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

13 " Satan loves isolation. He wants to draw the believer out of healthy relationships into isolated relationships and out of healthy practices into secretive, unhealthy practices. He purposely woos us away from those who might openly recognize the seduction and call his hand on it. Let's beware of anything that separates us from godly people. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

14 " Having our minds sanctified is an ongoing, lifelong process, but absolutely nothing will have a greater harvest in your life. So many people try to get hold of their emotions, but they don't realize the emotions are usually regulated by the mind. If we don't start thinking differently, we will never feel differently. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

15 " Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:18–19) "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

16 " Hebrews 4:12–16: For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power—making it active, operative, energizing and effective; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him], For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a fellow feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace—the throne of God's unmerited favor [to us sinners]; that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need—appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it. (AMP) "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

17 " we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

18 " God reserves the right to say what gets to enter the gates and what does not. Revelation 21 concludes with these words: “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

19 " Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction

20 " Isaiah 1:16–17 says, “Stop doing wrong, learn to do right!” To learn how to keep my cart from ending up in the ditches, I had to learn to do right! I'm still learning, but thank goodness my cart is staying on the path far more consistently these days. Doing right is a learned behavior that comes from being taught. The word disciple means “pupil” or “learner.” We will never cease to be God's children, but when we cease learning and being teachable, we are no longer disciples. "

― Beth Moore , When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Finding Authentic Restoration in the Age of Seduction