“You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].”
―
Jennie Allen,
Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“We have to deal with fear because it is possible that it will make us miss the best parts of life.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We can’t curl up on our couches, read the pages of a book, pray, and simply will our minds to change. God is concerned not only with the posture of our hearts but also with the people on each of our arms. In terms of fulfilling our mission in this life, we can’t do anything worthwhile alone.” ― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
“From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“Our confidence comes from believing God can do anything , then stepping back and letting Him.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“Nothing is more dangerous, more compelling, more freeing, more radical, more real, more satisfying, more powerful than a person holding a smidgen of faith. A sincere faith in Jesus and all He wants to do around us wakes us up, rattles our lives, shifts every perspective, issues hope in pain, and ignites purpose.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“I am a human, and we humans arrive with "screwed up" on our foreheads. We come that way, but somewhere between toddlerhood and being a grown-up we learn to wipe off our forehead signs. Sit up straight. To be good. But before God I am no different from these men. My forehead is clean my soul certainly is not. That day on an old, beat-up sofa with some old, beat up guys, I rethought the things of value to people and the types of people I've valued, and I realized that God shown more through those accused and hurting men then than in me.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We can do one of two things with suffering: we can absorb it and let it change us, or we can let it crush us. Suffering will change you, or it will crush you.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Faith is the measure to which we believe God is God. And faith is the measure to which we let God be God.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Striving is stealing our joy, our moments.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Every sin, at its root, is based in something we do not fully believe about God.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“Every moment is granted for purposes we can’t see. Every breath is issued for eternal things left undone. We brush against people in check-out lines who will live forever in heaven or hell, and we contain God. Try to tell me your life is insignificant. Try to tell me that anything about this life is insignificant.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We fall apart when we look at our fears and inadequacies and compare ourselves to every other runner. But fix your eyes on a God like Jesus, and you will not quit. You will not shrink back. Not from others, and not from yourself. Risk something. Step out and fail. Be the fool. Build a life that needs our God.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“No unique purpose for your life will fill your soul. The only thing that will fulfill and settle your soul is God himself.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” ― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
“We have to deal with fear because it is possible that it will make us miss the best parts of life.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We can’t curl up on our couches, read the pages of a book, pray, and simply will our minds to change. God is concerned not only with the posture of our hearts but also with the people on each of our arms. In terms of fulfilling our mission in this life, we can’t do anything worthwhile alone.” ― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
“From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“Our confidence comes from believing God can do anything , then stepping back and letting Him.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“Nothing is more dangerous, more compelling, more freeing, more radical, more real, more satisfying, more powerful than a person holding a smidgen of faith. A sincere faith in Jesus and all He wants to do around us wakes us up, rattles our lives, shifts every perspective, issues hope in pain, and ignites purpose.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“I am a human, and we humans arrive with "screwed up" on our foreheads. We come that way, but somewhere between toddlerhood and being a grown-up we learn to wipe off our forehead signs. Sit up straight. To be good. But before God I am no different from these men. My forehead is clean my soul certainly is not. That day on an old, beat-up sofa with some old, beat up guys, I rethought the things of value to people and the types of people I've valued, and I realized that God shown more through those accused and hurting men then than in me.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We can do one of two things with suffering: we can absorb it and let it change us, or we can let it crush us. Suffering will change you, or it will crush you.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Faith is the measure to which we believe God is God. And faith is the measure to which we let God be God.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Striving is stealing our joy, our moments.” ― Jennie Allen, Nothing to Prove: Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
“There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“Every sin, at its root, is based in something we do not fully believe about God.” ― Jennie Allen, Anything: The Prayer That Unlocked My God and My Soul
“Every moment is granted for purposes we can’t see. Every breath is issued for eternal things left undone. We brush against people in check-out lines who will live forever in heaven or hell, and we contain God. Try to tell me your life is insignificant. Try to tell me that anything about this life is insignificant.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“We fall apart when we look at our fears and inadequacies and compare ourselves to every other runner. But fix your eyes on a God like Jesus, and you will not quit. You will not shrink back. Not from others, and not from yourself. Risk something. Step out and fail. Be the fool. Build a life that needs our God.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“No unique purpose for your life will fill your soul. The only thing that will fulfill and settle your soul is God himself.” ― Jennie Allen, Restless: Because You Were Made for More
“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.” ― Jennie Allen, Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
