Christine Caine Quotes

Fear is just a feeling that will pass. It is not reality. Christ at work in you and through you is reality. When you learn to see areas of fear as places where trust is about to grow, fear gives way to courage.

How easy it is to let the depth of the ditch or the severity of the brokenness stop a good work before we even stoop down to do it.

When shame has been pumping through a heart, over time the heart itself grows toxic. When we are wounded, we leak toxic waste, and that waste poisons us and the people around us — even when we are completely unaware of it — just like I did with Joanna. The reality is: • Hurt people hurt people. • Broken people break people. • Shattered people shatter people. • Damaged people damage people. • Wounded people wound people. • Bound people bind people.

God’s image is only fully reflected in both man and woman. When we denigrate a woman, we are in fact diminishing part of the image of God. When we exclude women, we exclude part of God. When we put women down, we tarnish the image of God.

Even as the underpinnings of my world had shifted radically, they were resettling in a more secure place. Even as things seemed to be falling apart, the truth of God's love was holding me together. And that truth was: I knew he loved me, unquestionably, unconditionally, whether I was adopted or not. The truth was: His love is relentless, unyielding, passionate, unfailing, perfect.

When winds of storms come — and we know they will — we will ride the storms on his wings. When the challenges, trials, and obstacles come, he will catapult us to the next level of faith.

Whatever you’re facing, God invites you to “fix [your] eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen” (2 Corinthians 4:18). There is an eternal, unseen purpose beyond this crisis.

Remember that the valley of death through which you are walking truly is a shadow, and that shadow does not define you or your life. Jesus does.

No matter what circumstances we might face in life, it is possible for us to overcome in the midst of them by taking hold of God’s thoughts.

Lord Jesus, please give me the energy, strength, perseverance, and stamina I need to keep pressing on in my relationship with You. I’m in this race until the end!

What a crafty enemy we have. Can you see it? The enemy knows that if he can cause us to hide ourselves — who God made us to be — that it also causes us to lose sight of our identity in God as his image-bearers. Then, because our view of ourselves has been diminished, we shrink from stepping into the destiny God created for us. That’s a very effective strategy.

Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.

It’s been said that we are shaped by our thoughts. If this is true, can you imagine where one healthy thought can lead each day?

Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.