52 Quotes by Jennie Allen

You get to be God whether we like it or not. You get to decide how this goes, and we can only beg at your feet.

If we can taste heaven, we live differently.

Often we applaud exceptional ministry and miss the everyday ministry that nobody sees.

It is the fight for control that has us all tied up, while it’s really an illusion anyway. We control because we are afraid of what may happen if we let go. Do we really think we are better captains of our lives than a God who sees everything and deeply loves us? So we pursue our scrapbook dreams, distracted, too busy to see he’s already with us and has our steps planned. The days and pictures and people he puts in our scrapbooks are seemingly chaotic but perfectly planned.

Somehow I thought most of my life following God was not supposed to be too costly. Following God is flat costly.

What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?

So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God’s glory in it.