86 Quotes by Lynn Austin

I’ve seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I’ve never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn’t have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn’t enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby’s face to know God existed.

Jesus told us to look at the birds; they don’t worry about the future because our Heavenly Father feeds them. I think that’s why they praise Him.

It was easy to rise up in faith and heroism when we faced a clear-cut enemy. Its much harder to resist the enemy of gradualism and assimilation, much harder to maintain a passion for God when we are bogged down in the daily routine of life.

All these troubles you’ve been having aren’t a punishment from God. He wants to use them to draw you closer to himself.

Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I’m vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

Jerusalem’s wall is real, but it’s also symbolic,” he said. “In a way, we destroyed the wall ourselves by relying on idols instead of on God. We destroyed it by desecrating His Sabbaths. By ignoring the laws He gave us, laws that teach us how to live. These ruins are a picture of what we did to our relationship with the Almighty One – we demolished it. Now it’s time to rebuild what our sins have destroyed.