Jill Briscoe Quotes

#1. You can share in my joy, but I don't want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.

Jarod Kintz

#2. The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

Jill Briscoe

#3. I want to pave my own path artistically.

Lisa Marie Presley

#4. Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women. As I hear their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate. What a joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could do and being the people they never believed they could be.

Jill Briscoe

#5. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. The good is not a category that interests me.

Rem Koolhaas

#7. No one has more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, he will begin to manage you.

Jill Briscoe

#8. A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

Jill Briscoe

#9. People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

Jill Briscoe

#10. God's truth tells us the truth about ourselves, but His grace forgives us for the truth He reveals.

Jill Briscoe

#11. You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.

Jill Briscoe

#12. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Cordell Hull

#13. God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope

Jill Briscoe

#14. Courage isn't a feeling that
you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is
doing it scared.

Jill Briscoe

#15. I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

Jane Gardam

#16. A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#17. I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#18. What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

Graham Greene

#19. We may have to face God's truth about our pain
it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

Jill Briscoe

#20. As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.

Ernest Holmes

#21. I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security
a safeness in our life with Christ.

Jill Briscoe

#22. The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

Jill Briscoe

#23. His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

Jill Briscoe

#24. Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.

Jill Briscoe

#25. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Anatole France