Top 40 Liz Curtis Higgs Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Long before silver bells jingled, Christmas lights twinkled, and horse-drawn sleighs went dashing through the snow, God reached down from heaven with the best gift of all. Love, wrapped in swaddling clothes. Hope, nestled in a manger.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

2. “For no word from God will ever fail.” Luke 1:37.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

3. “What we call miraculous, God calls business as usual.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

4. “The head thinks, the hands labor, but it’s the heart that laughs.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

5. “Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They’re not arbitrary or random, and they’re definitely not cruel.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

6. “By God’s design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It’s how we learn. It’s how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

7. “Fun is temporary at best; it’s risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn’t seem to decipher.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

8. “It’s not where we’ve been that matters to God. It’s who we are becoming in Him.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

9. “For me, laughter is how we take a much needed break from the heartache, such that when we turn to face it again, it has by some miracle grown smaller in size and intensity, yet not disappeared altogether.”

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10. “Wherever you are spiritually, whatever you have been through emotionally, you are already wrapped in the Lord’s embrace. Held by nail-scarred hands. Enfolded in the arms of One who believes in you, supports you, treasures you, and loves you.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

11. “Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

12. “Lord, what an honor it will be to start the day with you. Give me the strength to lift my head, the courage to lift my heart, the joy to lift my spirits, and the confidence to lift my eyes and see you rising and shining in me.”

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13. “In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.”

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14. “A constant awareness of his superiority keeps things in perspective and, frankly, takes the pressure off. If God is in charge, I don’t have to be – and neither do you. What a relief! So let your fear turn to wonder. And let your wonder turn to faith, as you believe in the One who saves you from yourself.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

15. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

16. “If the Almighty directs our steps, we’ve no need to look back over our shoulders.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

17. “Every conception has a touch of the miraculous – this one far more than most.”

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18. “As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, “The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.”

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19. “My heart’s desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.”

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20. “His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.”

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21. “Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

22. “God, and she was changed. As commentator Matthew Henry eloquently described this scene, “Those who, through grace, are brought to experience the delights of communion with God will say that the one-half was not told them of the pleasures of Wisdom’s ways.”26.”

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23. “The loss of speech wasn’t punishment; it was the proof Zechariah had asked for, the assurance of God’s power.”

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24. “Even serving God in his holy temple, Zechariah was unprepared for something holy to happen.”

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25. “Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.”

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26. “First the Lord used Elizabeth, who was ‘too old,’ then he used Mary, who would be ‘too young’ by today’s standards. At any age we can serve the Lord.”

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27. “Our love for people doesn’t end when they pass away. More often our feelings deepen as we realize how much they mean to us and how dearly we miss them.”

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28. “As the sun moves higher in the cloudless sky, all the verses regarding seedtime and harvest come to mind, especially this one, which suits our hard-working Ruth: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”26.”

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29. “And consider this: the angel appeared to Mary first, not to her husband-to-be, Joseph. ‘She had no status or honor apart from him,’ yet Gabriel came to Mary – further proof of how much God values women.”

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30. “When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren’t mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let’s be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.”

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31. “Now consider this: the first person to hold the newborn Christ was Mary of Nazareth, and the first person to touch the newly risen Christ, however briefly, was Mary of Magdala. God placed himself in a woman’s care when he came to earth, then entrusted a woman to announce his resurrection when he came back to life.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

32. “In those days men were the ones who usually conferred blessings. Yet here we have a woman proclaiming a blessing upon another woman. Wow. Even from the womb, Jesus was changing the culture.”

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33. “Even the things we don’t understand are a display of the goodness of God.”

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34. “God particularly favors older women as channels of divine grace.”

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35. “Joseph was faithful to the letter of the law, but he was also faithful to the spirit of the law. He was grace giving. He was loving. He was merciful. Would God the Father entrust the upbringing of his Son to anyone else? The Lord made certain that Mary was betrothed to a man who was ‘mild, amiable, and tender.’ A man like Joseph of Nazareth.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

36. “An army bringing news of peace! And not ‘good will toward men,’ as we often say, but ‘peace among people of good will!’. Peace comes from knowing God.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

37. “Marrying a woman of priestly ancestry was a special blessing.”

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38. “This wasn’t the sixth month of the year; it was ‘six months after Elizabeth knew she was to become a mother’. Imagine the Lord using an expectant mother’s growing waistline to measure time! Never doubt for a moment that women matter to the Almighty.”

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39. “God knows the hour of each person’s passing. Whatever we did or didn’t do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God’s alone. “Thy will be done” is more than a prayer request. It’s a forgone conclusion.”

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40. “History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.”

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41. “No one knows the weight of another’s burden.”

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