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Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment QUOTES

Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment QUOTES

1 " God let [Jonah] go his own way, as he does with us when we insist on running our own show; but because God is merciful, he will make sure that any way we take away from him doesn’t work out so well. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

2 " God doesn't want our efforts at self-improvement. He wants our trust in his kindness toward us in Christ. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

3 " Real trust isn't believing that God will do things as we expect he should; it is, rather, believing that whatever he does is good and perfect. We will only find relief from fear if we relinquish our expectations of what we think God ought to do for us and ask him to create within our hearts a trusting expectation for what he wills to do. If "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

4 " Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

5 " Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

6 " The only way we will learn to trust God is by getting to know God. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

7 " Quit looking at your inability. Nothing is impossible with God, and you will find a clear path ahead if you look at him instead. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

8 " The only thing big enough to conquer this kind of fear is God, who rules every detail of every day of your life. Rest assured that nothing can touch you apart from your heavenly Father’s permission. Out of his love for you, he is well able to prevent the thing you are so afraid of, and out of that same love he might allow it. Either way, whatever happens, he only allows what is going to work for your eternal happiness and blessing and his glory. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

9 " God wants more than our symptom relief. He desires to get at the core of what underlies our fears, which, at the deepest level, have to do with our relationship to him. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

10 " God allows us to experience fear at times to help us recognize our false foundations, things on which we are resting our security that have no more strength to support us than a mound of whipped cream. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

11 " God often acts contrary to how we think a good God should act. The answer we think we need seems so logical and clear to our way of thinking, yet God does not provide it. That is where faith comes in. Real faith isn’t the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

12 " We care much less about long-term results and the glory of God than we do about simply feeling better. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

13 " Jesus plus something else does not double your security. It actually takes it away. The only security is Jesus plus nothing. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

14 " I’d never put my child through what God is doing to me.” But God is a wiser parent than we could ever be. He places us in situations that provoke us, not to cause us to doubt but to strengthen us against our doubts. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

15 " That very thing you want God to fix may be his instrument to teach you first to depend on him rather than on yourself or on peaceful circumstances. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

16 " Rather than take God at his word, they just looked at the difficulties. Rather than doubt their own viewpoint, they doubted God’s. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

17 " The devil is stronger and smarter than we are; so arguing with him won’t help us very much and can actually enhance our difficulty. Jesus has provided us with the way to resist…there are Scripture passages to refute every one of [the devil’s] lies. Immersing ourselves in the Bible is one of the primary ways we keep, or guard, our hearts. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

18 " God wants us to enjoy the peace that comes from a mind set on him and on his purposes rather than on how we feel. A Christ-focused life is a stable life, because the joy that comes along with it doesn't hinge, as do our human emotions, on daily ups and downs. "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment

19 " Lord, I think I made a mess of things. So I am placing the whole situation in your hands. Do with it what you will." Our "

― Lydia Brownback , Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment