Beth Moore Quotes

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

- Beth Moore

I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.

- Beth Moore

I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

- Beth Moore

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

- Beth Moore

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

- Beth Moore

I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

- Beth Moore

We Houstonians are a spicy lot. We raise our babies with tongues of fire, mostly lit by chips and salsa. Our blood is as thick and warm as queso.

- Beth Moore

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

- Beth Moore

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

- Beth Moore

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

- Beth Moore

I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.

- Beth Moore

The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.

- Beth Moore

As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

- Beth Moore

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

- Beth Moore

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

- Beth Moore

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

- Beth Moore

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

- Beth Moore

We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

- Beth Moore

I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.

- Beth Moore

I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.

- Beth Moore

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

- Beth Moore

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

- Beth Moore

I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.

- Beth Moore

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

- Beth Moore

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

- Beth Moore

I've never known more Jesus-serving, Jesus-loving, people-loving, people-serving folks on earth than right here in my hometown of Houston, Texas.

- Beth Moore

God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?

- Beth Moore

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

- Beth Moore

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

- Beth Moore

You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.

- Beth Moore

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

- Beth Moore

I was an emotional wreck even as a young child, fearful and tearful.

- Beth Moore

I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her someplace where she thinks that's the only thing that could cause insecurity.

- Beth Moore

My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.

- Beth Moore

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

- Beth Moore

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

- Beth Moore

We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.

- Beth Moore