Top 50 Linda Dillow Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Faithfulness is God’s standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful – simply faithful.”

— Linda Dillow

2. “We grow up when we see our life and our role from God’s perspective; when we thank God for the role He has assigned us and begin to see our cup as a gift instead of a cross; when each morning we ask, “God, how can I glorify You today in my given role?”

— Linda Dillow

3. “If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.”

— Linda Dillow

4. “Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.”

— Linda Dillow

5. “Despite its evils, bitterness holds many of us captive. Forgiveness is the only escape route out of this prison.”

— Linda Dillow

6. “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. Forgiveness breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. While dying on the cross, Jesus said, “Forgive them” – the Roman soldiers, the religious leaders, his disciples who had fled in darkness, even you and me who have denied him so many times – “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

— Linda Dillow

7. “When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we’re going to judge God by the circumstances we don’t understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.”

— Linda Dillow

8. “Today wife-abuse is a common occurrence and, sadly, is seen sometimes in Christian marriages. Submission does not mean allowing another person to batter us, whether it battering is physical, verbal or emotional.”

— Linda Dillow

9. “Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.”

— Linda Dillow

10. “We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.”

— Linda Dillow

11. “Isn’t it comforting to know that God knew each of us before He created us? He planned what each of us would look like, who our parents would be, if and who we would marry, and how many children we would have. Before we could know God, He cared for us. He hid each of us away as a treasure until He brought us to be. God says that He fashioned each of us with awe and wonder.”

— Linda Dillow

12. “Many neighborhood conflicts have their roots in trivial little insults made by one neighbor, which result in returned insults from the other neighbor. An insult-for-insult relationship develops, and all other avenues for friendship and communication disappear.”

— Linda Dillow

13. “Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn’t make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we’re assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.”

— Linda Dillow

14. “When does a woman become an adult? Perhaps it’s when she stops comparing her life to other women’s.”

— Linda Dillow

15. “It’s one thing to believe God can do something. It’s quite another to put yourself in a position of reliant trust. This is the distinction between intellectual belief and wholehearted faith.”

— Linda Dillow

16. “Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into – heart, mind, and soul.”

— Linda Dillow

17. “Happiness is getting what we want; contentment is wanting what we get.”

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18. “Yes... That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.”

— Linda Dillow

19. “God can rid your heart of greed, but it’s your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.”

— Linda Dillow

20. “At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ’s strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.”

— Linda Dillow

21. “God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.”

— Linda Dillow

22. “Confidence in God’s character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.”

— Linda Dillow

23. “It’s our “helping God out” that leads to an anxious heart. When we take over and try to control what happens, we take our focus off the One who is in control and put our eyes on our circumstances.”

— Linda Dillow

24. “One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.”

— Linda Dillow

25. “Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.”

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26. “The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson.”

— Linda Dillow

27. “No one can fulfill your purpose but you. And God’s plan for you and His plan for me embrace far more than the events or circumstances that happen to us. They also embrace what God wants us to be and do and what He desires to do in and through us.”

— Linda Dillow

28. “The words of Scripture are plain: God hates greed. It’s ugly. It breeds other sins. It consumes and controls us. We can’t get rid of greed with a halfhearted wish or a token prayer. We must wholeheartedly come before the Lord and beg Him to remove this wretched leech with her long-reaching tentacles.”

— Linda Dillow

29. “What Ifs will either drive us to God and faith or they will drive us to worry and dependence on self. God gives peace and contentment; worry gives illness and misery.”

— Linda Dillow

30. “God has stamped “lifegiver” on all women, regardless of the role we play. Women who have no biological children may choose to ask God for the privilege of being a spiritual mother, a godmother, or a substitute mother. If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don’t, we’ll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we’ve been given.”

— Linda Dillow

31. “Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.”

— Linda Dillow

32. “When confronted with negative circumstances, we have a choice: Will we pray about the problem or will we worry about it?”

— Linda Dillow

33. “His absolute sovereignty means that I can trust Him with my tiniest doubt or with my most heart-wrenching fear.”

— Linda Dillow

34. “Contentment comes from a proper relationship to God, not from a response to the circumstances. Our.”

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35. “God created our inmost being and fashioned us in our mother’s womb so that we might be equipped to fulfill the plan that He set out for us even before we were born. Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.”

— Linda Dillow

36. “Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.”

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37. “Faith looks to God, but feelings look to what is going on around us. Faith hopes in who God is and in what He has promised.”

— Linda Dillow

38. “Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.”

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39. “Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.5.”

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40. “It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It’s when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God’s. He begs you to leave the future to Him and to mind the present.”

— Linda Dillow

41. “Contentment is essentially a matter of accepting from God’s hand what He sends because we know that He is good and therefore it is good.”5.”

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42. “Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: “He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being.”8.”

— Linda Dillow

43. “God has stamped “lifegiver” on all women, regardless of the role we play.”

— Linda Dillow

44. “We affirm that God is love, but that love isn’t true for us until we personalize it in our walk with Him. God gave His life for us as proof of His love for us. You are His child. He would do anything for you. Faith in Him is so much easier when you have the confident assurance that He loves you!”

— Linda Dillow

45. “God cares about where your heart is, where your treasure is.”

— Linda Dillow

46. “All the hurt, fear, and rejection you have ever felt is what the Lord Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane.”

— Linda Dillow

47. “If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God.”

— Linda Dillow

48. “Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.”

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49. “If we don’t accept God’s portion for us, we will become women with spirits of discontent.”

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50. “If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be on earth also, and therefore material things will rule you.”

— Linda Dillow