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Beth Moore, Stepping Up: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent

"God cannot bring the Kingdom increase to our harvests that He desires until our egos decrease.... our pride is a strobe-light flashing how ignorant we are about God.... humility is the truest sign of intimacy with God" (132).

"The primary reason we are sometimes at a loss for words is that we should be.... We're in over our heads, and silence is our best option."

"Out of the ashes of the unfathomable, sooner than later our Lazarus-faith must rise from the dead--questions still unanswered--or the enemy has won."

"'I do not seek, O LORD, to penetrate Thy depths. I by no means think my intellect equal to them: but I long to understand in some degree Thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe, that I may understand'" (Anselm, English monk, eleventh century, as quote in Moore, 134).

"We don't know what will show up on us until God turns up the heat" (135).