Quotes about Confidence

The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

doesn't it all come down to that? Trust. Trading our will for "Thy will," because we know He will.

Negative self-talk was a rejection from my past that I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.

But the way they love is from a full place, not from an empty desperation. As we talked about in the last chapter, they are living loved. But

God will handle this, and even if you never see how God handles it, you know He will.

We don't need to understand God to trust Him.

I am made for more than a vicious cycle of eating, gaining, stressing...

Some church-raised young adults experience similar self-doubt when it comes to making spiritual judgments. Instead of equipping them to make thoughtful, prayerful decisions and then to trust God for the outcome, the church has instilled a debilitating fear of sin or "stepping out of God's will." How can we expect the next generation to move forward with confidence into God's future when they are scared of making a misstep?1

On the other hand, when I change to a growth mind-set, I don't chain my identity to my insecurity.

We must let our identity, not our insecurity, be the first thing that walks into every situation we face—every decision we make.

am a Jesus girl who can step on the scale and see the numbers as an indication of how much my body weighs and not as an indication of my worth.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.