Top 30 Beth Moore Quotes

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

I’ve learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.

I don’t write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

When someone does not want what God has to offer, He is not going to force it on them.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

I didn’t have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me – such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It’s just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don’t lead her someplace where she thinks that’s the only thing that could cause insecurity.

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you’re doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don’t do it.

I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don’t know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don’t really know biblically what I’m to ask Him for.

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I’ve got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined – not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what’s underneath.

I’ve never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.

You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you’ve been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are – and sometimes by the same individual.

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study ‘Breaking Free’, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

I don’t know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.