Nancy Leigh DeMoss famous quotes

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Grateful #Two #Issues

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Purpose #Positive Marriage #Glorify

No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Matter #Done #Week

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Self #Grace #Independence

Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Attitude #Depth #Sin

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Giving #Choices #Want

Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Crush #Pride #Broken

Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Selfish #Blessing #Choices

I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Regret #Years #Faithful

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Contentment #Realization #Today

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Mistake #Promise #Trusted

Jesus has revealed Himself in the Scripture. If we want to know Him, if we want to know the Truth, we must devote ourselves to the reading, study, and meditation of His Word
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus #Reading #Meditation

An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Sweet #Women #Knowing

We are never more like Jesus than when we are serving Him or others. There is no higher calling than to be a servant.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus #Calling #Servant

Gratitude is a lifestyle.  A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Gratitude #Biblical #Grace

O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Prayer #Omnipotence #Knowing

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Women #Greatness #People

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Father #Heart #World

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Encouragement #Hurt #Simple

Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Mean #Blessing #Joy

God hates it when we stir up strife, disloyalty, or contention among His people. It may happen in the church, but don’t you be a part of it. Don’t do it. Pray, ask the Lord to make you a peacemaker, and ask the Lord to show you how you can minister support and encouragement to the spiritual leaders of your church.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Spiritual #Encouragement #Hate

Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when you turn off the radio and the TV and eliminate unnecessary activities. Then begin feeding on the Word of God. At first, it may seem bland and boring; but in time, you will discover that it satisfies in a far deeper, richer way than those things you once thought were so filling.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Trying #Withdrawal #World

Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need to know it’s true. And He’s not just doing one or two or a few things in that situation. He is doing a thousand or more things.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Two #May #Needs

Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Pain #Prayer #Women

Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Disappointment #Broken #People

Regardless of the reaction of others, one thing is certain: True worship and devotion will make our lives fragrant and will perfume the environment around us. Our homes, our churches, even our places of work will bear the sweet scent of our devotion. Most important, the Lord Jesus will be pleased. And ultimately that is all that really matters.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Sweet #Jesus #Home

Revival is not just an emotional touch; it's a complete takeover!
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Emotional #Revival #Takeovers

Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God's person, His provision, His power, His promises, and His plan.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Gratitude #Greatness #Promise

Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus #Women #Purpose

Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Women #Grace #Holiness

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Home #Godly #Army

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Failing #Neighbor

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Progress #Holiness #Holy

It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Hurt #Choices #Holiness

Holiness is not just for some select few spiritual giants; it is not just for pious people who sit around all day with nothing to do but “be holy.”... “Everyone who names the name of the Lord” is called to live a holy life!
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Spiritual #Names #People

There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Heart #Men #Earth

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Gratitude #Jobs #Struggle

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#God Knows

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus #Pain #Joy

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Self #Surrender #Gods Will

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Addresses #Want #Needs

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Self #Resistance #Saying Yes

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Firsts #Revival #Mets

What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Powerful #Heart #Reflection

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Children #Motherhood #Flirting

Frustration is the by-product of attempting to fulfill responsibilities God does not intend for us to carry. Freedom, joy, and fruitfulness come from seeking to determine God’s priorities for each season of life, and then setting out to fulfill those priorities, in the power of His Spirit, realizing that He has provided the necessary time and abilities to do everything that He has called us to do.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Responsibility #Frustration #Priorities

Sound theology should always lead us to doxology and transformation.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Sound #Doxology #Transformation

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Heart #Judging #Looks

Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Pride #Men #Fire

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Heart #Thinking #Moments

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Mean #Two #Greek

Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus

We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Pain #Crowns #Laziness

Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Sports #Father #Honor

Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-revealing top is called suggestive. What does it suggest? That there is more than what you now see, and I may let you look closer since I'm already willing to give you this much of a peek.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Cutting #Giving #Looks

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Struggle #Issues #Calling

Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Spiritual #Kings #Children

Men are not inspired to protect women who are naked, but instead to conquer and violate them; they want to protect those who are clothed.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Men #Want #Naked

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
-- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Christmas #Father #Son