Vaneetha Rendall Risner

(1) God's revealed glory [28]
(2) The power of lament found in the book of Ruth [33ff]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "I am not defined by what other people have said or done to me. I am defined by who I am in Christ." [8]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "I have learned that prayer changes my perspective on life." [21]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "A greater understanding of who God is, what God is like, what He does -- that was God's revealed glory, not a brilliant flash of light or some undefined ecstasy." [28]
Quote (Unknown(: "Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." [64]
Quote (Paul Tripp): "Waiting is not just bout what I get at the end of the wait, but about who I become as I wait." [80]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "God...offered His presence when I wanted His presents." [83]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "God has a reason for all of our circumstances." ]87]
Quote (Charles Spurgeon): " I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages." [94]
Quote (Joni Eareckson Tada): "God permits what He hates to achieve what He loves." [106]
Quote (Alexander Solzhenitsyn): "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, not between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts." [111]
Quote (John Wyatt): "Suffering is not a question which demands an answer, it is not a problem which requires a solution, it is a mystery which demands a presence." [131]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Viewing life through a lens of gratitude can change everything. ... How I view my own life is dependent on what I choose to focus on." [141]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "When we declare that God is more precious than our health, our happiness, even our very lives, we highlight His supreme worth to an immense, invisible audience." [144]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Faith is much more about consistently walking with the Lord and trusting Him than it is about feeling His presence, or having spiritual 'experiences.'" [158]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Were my prayers for deliverance answered with the gift of sustenance?" [161]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Heaven will change everything." [166]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Satan wants us to think that this life holds pleasures that we cannot experience in heaven." [168]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Because of the gospel, God as all of eternity to lavish His love on us." [169]… (meer)