Top 60 Jennie Allen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Because of grace we have nothing to prove. Our confidence is in the security and power God gives us, not in ourselves. To know that you are absolutely treasured, unconditionally, changes you in this way. You feel free, and you want to run with a God who would love you like that. To know that we do not measure up and that we don’t have to because of Jesus, because of grace, means that life gets a whole lot more fun.”

— Jennie Allen

2. “Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people.”

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3. “This journey is a chance to lay out what you have, what you know, and hand it up to God. I should mention: we have no idea what he will say to do with it, but we begin by laying it out and handing it over.”

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4. “Every sin, at its root, is based in something we do not fully believe about God.”

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5. “We can do one of two things with suffering: we can absorb it and let it change us, or we can let it crush us. Suffering will change you, or it will crush you.”

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6. “Our confidence comes from believing God can do anything, then stepping back and letting Him.”

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7. “Striving is stealing our joy, our moments.”

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8. “If we can taste heaven, we live differently.”

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9. “Humility is a grateful and spontaneous awareness that life is a gift, and it is manifested as an ungrudging and unhypocritical acknowledgment of absolute dependence upon God.”

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10. “I think God could untangle your soul, your story, your gifts, your people, your place, and your passions, and begin to weave it into purposes that you haven’t been brave enough to imagine.”

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11. “One God-honoring thought has the potential to change the trajectory of both history and eternity. Just as one uninterrupted lie in my head has the potential to bring about unimaginable destruction in the world around me.”

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12. “Even though every piece of today feels small. I’ll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way this book is completed. Step by step. Word by word. Day by day.”

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13. “Evil never wants to be noticed, I should mention here. It sneaks in and hijacks our minds, and we barely notice anything’s amiss.”

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14. “There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.”

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15. “So, if we don’t begin with surrender, we inevitably dream with vanity, with ego, with control.”

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16. “Sometimes we bolt because we hate to repent. It feels like death to confess. But when God calls us to something that feels backward, it is usually his path to our freedom. The path out of shame is to see our sin and turn from it toward our God.”

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17. “Christ never intended those who walked with him to feel comfortable and safe. This was meant to be a risk-it-all pursuit.”

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18. “We can’t curl up on our couches, read the pages of a book, pray, and simply will our minds to change. God is concerned not only with the posture of our hearts but also with the people on each of our arms. In terms of fulfilling our mission in this life, we can’t do anything worthwhile alone.”

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19. “Nothing is more dangerous, more compelling, more freeing, more radical, more real, more satisfying, more powerful than a person holding a smidgen of faith. A sincere faith in Jesus and all He wants to do around us wakes us up, rattles our lives, shifts every perspective, issues hope in pain, and ignites purpose.”

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20. “We fall apart when we look at our fears and inadequacies and compare ourselves to every other runner. But fix your eyes on a God like Jesus, and you will not quit. You will not shrink back. Not from others, and not from yourself. Risk something. Step out and fail. Be the fool. Build a life that needs our God.”

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21. “Anyone can get to heaven – no matter how messy his or her life. And by the same token, anyone can be kept out – regardless of all his or her fancy goodness.”

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22. “Pretending to be good halts God’s movement in our life.”

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23. “You have threads of life blowing around, possibly even strangling you – threads that are meant to bind together and become your unique, God-given contribution to a world in great need.”

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24. “If we trust in Christ, we are forgiven. The space in which we are stuck, lacking, sinful, broken, and in need, is the space in us that longs for God, longs for forgiveness. When we soberly view ourselves and our sin, we see our need and call out for God.”

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25. “Every moment is granted for purposes we can’t see. Every breath is issued for eternal things left undone. We brush against people in check-out lines who will live forever in heaven or hell, and we contain God. Try to tell me your life is insignificant. Try to tell me that anything about this life is insignificant.”

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26. “You bond with people who cry over your rebel children with you.”

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27. “So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God’s glory in it.”

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28. “Unless there is some craving for God and some distaste for sin in us, we should question if we are believers.”

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29. “Grace is scary insane.”

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30. “It is too easy in this country for blessings to become rights, for stuff and money to become what calls the shots in our lives. And before we know it, God’s gifts have replaced God himself.”

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31. “Often we applaud exceptional ministry and miss the everyday ministry that nobody sees.”

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32. “We don’t want to fall. We like to see great testimonies of God’s grace, but we don’t want to be the testimony.”

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33. “Somehow I thought most of my life following God was not supposed to be too costly. Following God is flat costly.”

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34. “Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don’t mess with you.”

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35. “Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.”

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36. “Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.”

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37. “If I were your enemy, this is what I would do: Make you believe you need permission to lead. Make you believe you are helpless. Make you believe you are insignificant. Make you believe that God wants your decorum and behavior.”

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38. “If I can accept that I am so sinful and so broken that I am likely to hurt anyone close to me on any given day without even being aware of it, I can willingly pass out grace to those who hurt me.”

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39. “Vision and rest and work and joy and Jesus and difficulty are meant to coexist. But too often, caught up in our own cycle of striving and numbing, we lose sight of the beauty and grand story unfolding.”

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40. “God, I pray that You would set this reader free. God, in Your power would You help us fight the enemy hell-bent on destroying us and help us remember that the power to choose a different way is ours in You? And then help us give that away to a world aching for a new way to think and live. In Jesus’s name, amen.”

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41. “God is home to us. He is where we were made to be. He is what we were made for. We just forget all that while we are trying to be good and independent.”

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42. “Theologian Tim Keller says if you love anything more than God, even though you believe in God, if there is anything in your life that is more important to your own identity or significance than God, then that is a false god and it is a power in your life.5 And you can usually tell that something here has become an idol because you have an extreme reaction when it is threatened.”

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43. “You get to be God whether we like it or not. You get to decide how this goes, and we can only beg at your feet.”

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44. “The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.”

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45. “As he thinks in his heart, so is he.”5.”

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46. “It is the fight for control that has us all tied up, while it’s really an illusion anyway. We control because we are afraid of what may happen if we let go. Do we really think we are better captains of our lives than a God who sees everything and deeply loves us? So we pursue our scrapbook dreams, distracted, too busy to see he’s already with us and has our steps planned. The days and pictures and people he puts in our scrapbooks are seemingly chaotic but perfectly planned.”

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47. “What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?”

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48. “We need different eyes, a different mind. One that lifts us above the seen and our short time here, above the fears that invade our lives, above the snapshots in our scrapbooks.”

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49. “So what is the one thought that can successfully interrupt every negative thought pattern? It’s this: I have a choice.”

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50. “You have a God-given, God-empowered, God-redeemed ability to choose what you think about. You have a choice regarding where you focus your energy. You have a choice regarding what you live for.”

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