Quotes from Anne Graham Lotz

Stop resisting Him. Stop resenting Him. Stop complaining. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop demanding what you want. Stop focusing on the outer wrappings of yourself and your circumstances. Adjust your attitude. Change your mind about things — about yourself— about others — about Him. Relax in total trust. He knows what He's doing. Unwrap the package! Let go, and look up! Let Him open the eyes of your heart. OPEN YOUR EYES!

Did your big break turn into a big bust? Sometimes a great escape from a wounded past can turn into something worse as we discover the wounds were not just from without, but they were within. So regardless of where we go, what we do, who we are with, we carry those wounds with us.

Ask Him to fill your life until you overflow with His love — even for those you don't like!

It's been said that peace is not the absence of danger but the presence of God.

authentically. I am deeply motivated to know God. I want to know Him as He truly is, not through the distorted reflection of those who called themselves by His name. And I want to make Him known to others as accurately, winsomely, clearly, and compellingly as I can.

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

God is in the darkness and God is in the wilderness. I now know that by personal experience.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. ISAIAH 40:28 — 29

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

When we are wounded we need to be very careful about what happens next. Because in the aftermath we are vulnerable to the enemy of our souls who would seek to use us to wound others. Watch out!

God cares about each of us and all of us — period! And because He really does love you — He really does care about you — you and I can run, but we can't outrun Him.

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.