Quotes About Ludy

#1. You should try dating nice guys," her friend Ludy used to say in high school. "They're nice. I think you'd like them."
"Boring," Georgie'd said. "Pointless."
"Not pointless
nice.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. Nothing good is easy."
"Not true," Ludy said. "Sleep. TV. Jell-O Instant Pudding."
"I don't want to go out with Jell-O Instant Pudding," Georgie said.
"I would marry Jell-O Instant Pudding.

Rainbow Rowell

#3. Not my will, but Yours be done.

Leslie Ludy

#4. You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

Eric Ludy

#5. Too many of the men today are mice, not men. Too many of the women of our age are vain, not valiant. We are paranoid of the battle, not productive in it. We are soft where we should be solid, and hard where we should be soft.

Eric Ludy

#6. The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

Leslie Ludy

#7. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

Leslie Ludy

#8. Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

Eric Ludy

#9. The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

Eric Ludy

#10. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

Eric Ludy

#11. The way a man treats a woman, he explianed, is a relfection of his relationship with God. Thats why i say, a woman is the proving ground for a man. You can determine a mans quiality by watching him with a woman

Eric Ludy

#12. Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!

Eric Ludy

#13. The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

Leslie Ludy

#14. Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.

Eric Ludy

#15. Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

Eric Ludy

#16. Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

Eric Ludy

#17. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

Leslie Ludy

#18. I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.

Leslie Ludy

#19. God's mapmakers give no thought to their own desires or security. Instead, they eagerly spill themselves out as a fragrant offering to heaven.

Eric Ludy

#20. As for God, His way is perfect. PSALM 18:30

Eric Ludy

#21. If there is no scent of Christ's love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.

Eric Ludy

#22. Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.

Leslie Ludy

#23. God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Leslie Ludy

#24. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.

Eric Ludy

#25. When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives.

Eric Ludy

#26. Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

Eric Ludy

#27. A great life is not the result of a formula perfectly followed. Rather of a God wholly trusted.

Eric Ludy

#28. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants

Eric & Leslie Ludy

#29. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.

Eric Ludy

#30. In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.

Leslie Ludy

#31. When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Eric Ludy

#32. Specific praying is the key to building faith

Leslie Ludy

#33. I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

Eric Ludy

#34. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.

Eric Ludy

#35. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.

Eric Ludy

#36. Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

Leslie Ludy

#37. The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

Leslie Ludy

#38. The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5]

Eric Ludy

#39. The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

Eric Ludy

#40. No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.

Leslie Ludy

#41. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

Eric Ludy

#42. God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

Eric Ludy

#43. Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

Leslie Ludy

#44. Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

Eric Ludy

#45. A life spent wholly and completely upon Him is a life wholly and completely satisfied.

Eric Ludy

#46. Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

Leslie Ludy

#47. Find a woman who cares about nothing but loving, serving, honoring, and glorifying Jesus Christ, and you will see who truly is the 'fairest of them all.'

Leslie Ludy

#48. You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.

Eric Ludy

#49. It is not that we don't have confidence in our God to save us from hell; we just don't have confidence in Him to do everything else he has promised to do while we are still on Earth.

Leslie Ludy

#50. God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.

Leslie Ludy

#51. Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.

Eric Ludy

#52. But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.

Eric Ludy

#53. Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

Leslie Ludy

#54. Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

Eric Ludy

#55. Don't try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.

Eric Ludy

#56. Leslie, don't you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I'm capable of leading you to that right man someday?

Leslie Ludy

#57. Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women ... in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

Eric Ludy

#58. Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

Eric Ludy

#59. Make me little in mind, soft in heart, trusting in soul.

Eric Ludy

#60. Rather they built there entire lives around a relationship with Christ.

Eric Ludy

#61. We need Christians who don't try to match God's words to their experience, but rather, whose experience is corrected, elevated, and altered by the Word's penetrating perfection.

Eric Ludy

#62. When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

Leslie Ludy

#63. Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

Leslie Ludy

#64. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

Eric Ludy

#65. Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.

Leslie Ludy

#66. Mr. Purity nodded and paused to take another sip of coffee. As you well know, my name has fallen into a state of great reproach. And with this declining opinion of my importance, I have become increasingly unattractive to most people today.

Eric Ludy

#67. Even though my Sunday school upbringing had taught me that God loved me, inwardly I always suspected that maybe He was more interested in making me miserable than in blessing me.

Eric Ludy

#68. The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt.

Leslie Ludy

#69. The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.

Eric Ludy

#70. Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

Eric Ludy

#71. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.

Eric Ludy

#72. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

Eric Ludy

#73. Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Eric Ludy

#74. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.

Eric Ludy

#75. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

Leslie Ludy

#76. I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

Eric Ludy

#77. We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

Eric Ludy

#78. The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

Eric Ludy

#79. We (need to) get completely out of the way and allow Him to live His life through us in whatever way he chooses.

Eric Ludy

#80. There is no safer place for your hopes and dreams than in the loving hands of your faithful Father.

Leslie Ludy

#81. Purity brings freedom, life, love, and a sense of stability and fortification for which every human heart longs.

Eric Ludy

#82. For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

Eric Ludy

#83. If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Eric Ludy

#84. Don't expect others to understand or approve of your life. Be willing to look like a fool.

Eric Ludy

#85. Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life.

Leslie Ludy

#86. Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

Leslie Ludy

#87. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

Eric Ludy

#88. The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

Leslie Ludy

#89. But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.

Eric Ludy

#90. Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.

Eric Ludy

#91. He isn't impressed with numbers or achievements like we are. He is moved by the daily act of surrender. He is stirred by our desire to know Him more.

Eric Ludy

#92. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

Eric Ludy

#93. Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love,will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory.

Leslie Ludy

#94. I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

Leslie Ludy

#95. I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

Eric Ludy

#96. I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own ...

Eric Ludy

#97. God's mapmakers rely on Christ not cheap human tricks, to draw people to the truth.

Eric Ludy

#98. She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

Leslie Ludy

#99. In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.

Leslie Ludy