Top 50 Jen Wilkin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.”

— Jen Wilkin

2. “Are we called to be like Noah? Yes. Are we called to be like the Good Samaritan? Yes. But not simply because they are positive examples to inspire us to righteousness. These stories point us to Christ.”

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3. “We become what we behold.”

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4. “There is no true knowledge of self apart from the knowledge of God.”

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5. “Women teachers, let’s shift the focus from ‘you are a daughter of the King’ to ‘behold your King’.”

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6. “If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God.”

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7. “We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.”

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8. “Image-bearing means becoming fully human, not becoming divine. It means reflecting as a limited being the perfections of a limitless God.”

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9. “Knowing who God is matters to us. It changes not only the way we think about him, but the way we think about ourselves. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand.”

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10. “We know there’s more. We have a longing for eternity, and that longing is itself a longing for God who exists outside of time.”

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11. “You will never turn from a sin you don’t hate.”

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12. “If we focus on our actions without addressing our hearts, we may end up merely as better behaved lovers of self.”

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13. “Your love for others is the overflow of your love for God. Your love for God will increase as you learn to know him better. But never lost sight that your influence will be noticed in how you use your heart, not your head. Bible literacy that does not transform is a chasing after the wind. Christians will be known by our love, not our knowledge. We will not be known by just any kind of love – we will be known for the kind of love the Father has shown to us and we in turn show to others.”

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14. “We humans must confess, ‘I am because he is.’ Only God can say, ‘I AM WHO I AM’.”

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15. “Sanctification is the process of learning increasing dependence, not autonomy.”

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16. “I have always liked the story in the Gospels in which Jesus awakens from a nap during a storm and tells nature to calm the heck down.”

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17. “The fact that you are currently inhaling and exhaling at this very moment means that you are a recipient of mercy.”

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18. “When we fear God rightly, we recognize him for who he truly is: a God of no limits, and therefore, utterly unlike anyone or anything we know.”

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19. “No longer can we parse our fellow humans into the categories of ‘lovable’ and ‘unlovable.’ If love is an act of the will – not motivated by need, not measuring worth, not requiring reciprocity – then there is no such category as ’unlovable.”

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20. “Why am I here? To be a megaphone for God’s glory.”

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21. “How do you move a mountain? One spoonful of dirt at a time. Chinese proverb.”

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22. “Psalm 139 is not a psalm about me, fearfully and wonderfully made. It is a psalm about my Maker, fearful and wonderful. It is a psalm to inspire awe.”

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23. “We must make a study of our God: what he loves, what he hates, how he speaks and acts. We cannot imitate a God whose features and habits we have never learned. We must make a study of him if we want to become like him. We must seek his face.”

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24. “Bible literacy matters because it protects us from falling into error. Both the false teacher and the secular humanist rely on biblical ignorance for their messages to take root, and the modern church has proven fertile ground for those messages. Because we do not know our Bibles, we crumble at the most basic challenges to our worldview. Disillusionment and apathy eat away at our ranks. Women, in particular, are leaving the church in unprecedented numbers.1.”

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25. “It is not coincidental that a lack of discernment and a neglected Bible are so often found in company.”

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26. “The Bible does tell us who we are and what we should do, but it does so through the lens of who God is. The knowledge of God and the knowledge of self always go hand in hand.”

— Jen Wilkin

27. “While legalism builds self-righteousness, lawfulness builds righteousness. Obedience to the law is the means of sanctification for the believer.”

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28. “All human creativity is the vaguest whisper of the creativity of God.”

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29. “Everything we say or do will either illuminate or obscure the character of God. Sanctification is the process of joyfully growing luminous.”

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30. “For years I viewed my interaction with the Bible as a debit account: I had a need, so I went to the Bible to withdraw an answer. But we do much better to view our interaction with the Bible as a savings account: I stretch my understanding daily, I deposit what I glean, and I patiently wait for it to accumulate in value, knowing that one day I will need to draw on it.”

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31. “There is a vastness between what I am and what I ought to be, but it is a vastness able to be spanned by the mercy and grace of him whose face it is most needful for me to behold. In beholding God we become like him. So.”

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32. “In a sense, God has a closet filled with infinite secrets about himself, but it contains only priceless treasures, no skeletons.”

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33. “But our insecurities, fears, and doubts can never be banished by the knowledge of who we are. They can only be banished by the knowledge of “I AM.”

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34. “Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder. But with a clear purpose, we are far more likely to persevere.”

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35. “Exegesis says, “Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then.”

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36. “If I am fully known and not rejected by God, how much more ought I to extend grace to my neighbor, whom I know only in part?”

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37. “Busyness believes that the time God has given is not adequate. We must redeem the present by leaving time to observe the practice of stillness and the precept of Sabbath, taking on the trusting posture of one who sits at the feet of her Lord.”

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38. “The key to enjoying wine isn’t just to guzzle a lot of expensive wine, it’s to learn about wine.”

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39. “The second thing I got backwards in my approach to the Bible was the belief that my heart should guide my study. The heart, as it is spoken of in Scripture, is the seat of the will and emotions. It is our “feeler” and our “decision-maker.” Letting my heart guide my study meant that I looked for the Bible to make me feel a certain way when I read it. I wanted it to give me peace, comfort, or hope. I wanted it to make me feel closer to God.”

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40. “Because he is infinitely good, the things that we do not know about God are only good things.”

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41. “The Word is living and active. It will conform you by dividing you. And in the dividing, miracle of miracles, it will render you whole.”

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42. “A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold.”

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43. “The God of the Bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.”

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44. “I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.”

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45. “A well-rounded approach to Bible study recognizes that the Bible is always more concerned with the decision-maker than with the decision itself. Its aim is to change our hearts so that we desire what God desires, rather than to spoon-feed us answers to every decision in life.”

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46. “The Bible does not want to be neatly packaged into three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day increments. It does not want to be reduced to truisms and action points. It wants to introduce dissonance into your thinking, to stretch your understanding. It wants to reveal a mosaic of the majesty of God one passage at a time, one day at a time, across a lifetime.”

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47. “Though Edison’s “Let there be light” may have ushered us into sleeplessness, the divine Creator who uttered “Let there be light” also benevolently and pointedly declares “Let there be rest.”

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48. “We repeat what we most want remembered, what is most important, and what is most easily forgotten.”

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49. “It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.”

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50. “If we want to feel a deeper love for God, we must learn to see him more clearly for who he is. If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God.”

— Jen Wilkin