Browsing Topic Best Hiding Place Quotes

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there’s probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

I think that humans are also set up to survive. We’re not as small as rats, but we make up for that by being intelligent enough to make our own hiding places and to adapt to new habitats, even if they are changing very quickly. We have an enormous population, and can afford to lose billions of people without suffering very much as a species. Indeed, some would say losing five billion people would be good for the planet – I disagree with them, but can’t deny that we would do just fine if there were two billion of us or even one billion.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

What we need very badly these days is a company of Christians who are prepared to trust God as completely now as they know they must do at the last day… It would be better to invite God now to remove every false trust, to disengage our hearts from all secret hiding places and to bring us out into the open where we can discover for ourselves whether or not we actually trust Him. That is a harsh cure for our troubles, but it is a sure one. Gentler cures may be too weak to do the work. And time is running out on us.

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn’t have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.