Quotes by Pamela Reeve
Pamela Reeve (1916–2013) — Christliche Autorin, Dozentin und Studentendekanin · evangelikal · USA
Pamela Reeve (1916–2013) war eine US-amerikanische evangelikale Autorin, Seelsorgerin und langjährige Studentendekanin an der Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland, Oregon. Bekanntheit erlangte sie vor allem durch ihren Bestseller „Faith Is...“ sowie durch Andachtsbücher über persönliche Hingabe und die praktische Bewährung des Glaubens im Alltag. Für Bibelleser bieten ihre prägnanten Texte bis heute einprägsame Impulse dazu, wie sich Gottvertrauen in alltäglichen Herausforderungen und Zweifeln konkretisiert.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Meaning & Identity, Guilt & Forgiveness, Love, Growth & Character, Patience & Waiting, Prayer & Silence
Quotes by Pamela Reeve
Faith is understanding: God is not disappointed in me - for he knew me even before he chose me.
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Faith is realizing: what God wants from me is quite simple - to let myself be loved by him.
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Faith is: expecting God to work wonders - through people like me, who have no more than five loaves and two fish.
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Faith is: the certainty that God is still working on my character, even when the lively river of my life seems to have turned into a stagnant pool.
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Faith is: letting God set the record straight when wrong things have been said about me.
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Faith is: expecting a sea of golden wheat - from the barren fields I had to walk alone, watered only by my tears.
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Faith is: not worrying, even when I haven't the slightest idea what God wants for my life.
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Faith is accepting it when God wants me to be perfectly normal, even though I long to be someone special.
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Faith is reminding myself of this fact: God has nothing against me, even though I still condemn myself for sin that has already been forgiven.
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Faith is giving up the image of perfection I fight so hard for — and accepting his grace instead.
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Faith is understanding that God can use me — not in spite of my scars, but because of them.
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Faith is finally quitting trying to be good enough for God, and truly believing Jesus' redeeming, saving love.
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Faith is remembering: God loves me just as tenderly and passionately when I fail as when I walk upright.
Pamela Reeve
Faith is not faith in my quiet time or in the quality of my spiritual life, but faith in God.
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Faith is remembering: even though the path ahead looks as dark as night, God can see, and he leads me unfailingly.
Pamela Reeve
Faith is accepting the gift of his unchanging love, without trying to prove myself worthy of it.
Pamela Reeve
Faith is understanding that my experiences with God will not move me one inch further spiritually, unless they are spelled out in daily relationships.
Pamela Reeve
Faith is accepting that God's work has made me pure - completely pure. Especially when my own basic assessment of myself is quite different.
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Faith is holding fast that the seemingly unanswered prayer of many years is not a pointless exercise, but a means through which God accomplishes his great, eternal purposes - in his own time.
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Faith is holding on when I am utterly weary, discouraged, disappointed, forsaken, dusty and dry - relying on his strength alone.
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Faith is realizing: I am the treasure Christ sought and found. I am his joy.
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Faith is rejoicing that, though I am a battered, unremarkable, broken vessel, God has filled me with his treasure: Christ.
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Faith is trusting that God is doing his work in me, even when I feel cold, hollow, lifeless and forsaken inside, and long for comforting feelings.
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Faith is remembering: much about me will change in heaven, but I will not be one bit more justified than I am right now. Christ is my justification.
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Faith is believing that He: the miracle worker, can transform my stony, frozen heart into a flame of love for those I have never managed to love.
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Faith is: trusting God when the money slips through your fingers and no one knows where more will come from.
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Faith is: rejecting the thought that God loves the popular, attractive, or talented Christians more than me.
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Faith is: remembering that I am God's priceless treasure, even when I feel absolutely worthless.
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Faith is: trusting that God has made me flawless for his purposes, even when it feels like everything about me is one big mistake.
Pamela Reeve
Faith is: grown in need, disappointment, frustration, conflict, failure, loss - not in stained-glass windows or pious props.
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Faith is: not dependent on how hard I try, on whether I'm agitated or sober. It rests on what God promises me in his word.
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Faith is: refusing to feel guilty over old known sins when God, my Lord, has forgiven them.
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Faith is: realizing that God is God here and now, pursuing his purposes even in every tiring, boring, or gloomy minute of my life.
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Faith is: resting in the fact that I am accepted by God not merely on probation.
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Faith is: thanking God for the very thing that keeps upsetting me.
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Faith is: entrusting the problems of the people I love most to God, so that he may solve them.
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Faith is: recognizing that God is Lord of time, even when my idea of the right moment doesn't match his.
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Faith is: relying on God having a plan for my life, even when I can't make out a destination in the tangle of streets.
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Faith is: trusting that God wants the best for me, even when he answers my prayers with a no.
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Faith is letting myself be filled by God instead of unhealthy but pleasant satisfactions like workaholism, perfectionism, or unhealthy relationships.
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