184 Quotes by James MacDonald

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

You can’t teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

God’s love is not a pampering love. God’s love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

Don’t get a bad attitude like they did back in the wilderness, or you’re going to be joining them.

Satan mounts his mutiny against God through a deceitful stronghold: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God’s heart on trial by whispering insidious lies: “God is holding back on you. He wants you to jump through hoops in order to earn His love. He’s stingy. He doesn’t have your best interest in mind. You’re better off trusting in yourself. Your resources and functional saviors work better then waiting and trusting in Him.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough.

Thankfulness is the attitude that perfectly displaces my sinful tendency to complain and thereby release joy and blessing into my life.

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him – your belief that He is in control and that He is good – can be proved only in times when life is hard.