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… - Beth Moore

“We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never find. Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed. The best possible way to keep from getting sucked into the superficial narcissistic mentality that money, possessions, and sensuality can satisfy and secure us is to deliberately give ourselves to something much greater...[Christ] showed us that giving, rather than getting, is the means to receiving...to find yourself, your true self, you must lose yourself in something larger.

Why...would God go to the trouble to plant a garden that is forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence?" She came to understand that "God delights in watching things grow.