Top 15 Jennifer Dukes Lee Quotes

"Christ continually shouts through the universe, "You have a love that is already yours. You have nothing to prove to anyone. You have nothing to prove to Me. You are significant and preapproved and utterly cherished. Not because you are 'good,' but because you are Mine.

In a world where you can choose to be anything, choose to be KIND.

Before the foundations of the world, He loved you.
Before the fall of Eden, He loved you. Before He sent His Son splitting through the cosmos to this world, He loved you. Before He died upon the cross, He loved you. When He rose again, He loved you. And He's coming back again because He loves you. When you took your first breath, He loved you. When you messed up bad, He loved you. When you made good grades, He loved you. When you won and when you lost, He loved you.

Happiness isn’t a destination. It’s a journey. And sometimes the journey is hard.

Cicero said that gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. If that’s true, then my happiness does not cause me to be grateful for what I have. My gratitude for what I have causes me to be happy. Gratitude births the virtue of happiness.

Until you are convinced of God's incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ.

God is with you in the spectacular, and he’s with you in the regular. There is dignity in both places.

Ambition is your own yoke, not His! And the lust of wealth, the desire for power, the craving for human love — all that is a yoke of your own making — and if you will wear it, it will gall you. There is more joy in being unknown than in being known and there is less care in having no wealth than in having much of it. We often go the wrong way to work in seeking true restfulness and happiness.

The art of happy-making begins when we find our happiness within instead of without.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. BRENNAN MANNING

Sometimes, the only way out of a storm … is to go through it.

Why do we live in this cycle of validation, swept up by the empty promises of the Love Idol, only to sink down when someone rejects us? We make frenetic jumps from island to island between tidal waves of insecurity. Beth Moore says culture has “thrown us under the bus. We have a fissure down the spine of our souls.”[22] We want to keep up appearances. We want to avoid criticism. We treat our lives like a stat sheet, trying to keep score the world’s way.

In God, happiness and purposeful work are a package deal.

Until you are convinced of God’s incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ.

We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross.