James MacDonald Quotes

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

The day you stop loving your people, they're not your people anymore.

Every obedience is not easy. This is for Jesus Christ. He deserves everything!

It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way