Kris Vallotton Quotes

When someone believes in you before you deserve it, it transforms you. ~ Kris Vallotton

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry. ~ Kris Vallotton

I'd like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God. ~ Kris Vallotton

You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you. ~ Kris Vallotton

I do not know who coined the statement "an idle mind is the devil's playground," but it is true. When camping in dangerous places, it is often recommended that you keep a campfire going to keep the predators away. When we set our hearts on fire, demonic predators stay out of our camp, which is my main point in this chapter. The apostle Paul put it best: "Love never fails" (see 1 Corinthians 13:8). We have spent several chapters talking about how to win spiritual battles in our own lives and in the lives of others. But when all else fails, remember this: Love cannot be defeated. ~ Kris Vallotton

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise. ~ Kris Vallotton

Fear is actually faith in the wrong god. Fear is the manifestation of believing that something is about to go wrong. And yet, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18). ~ Kris Vallotton

Did you notice that trials do not test our character, they test our faith? Faith is fundamentally a relational term - it is not first a matter of what you believe, but of whom you trust. The battle for our trust is as old as Adam and Eve. In the midst of battle, it can seem so complex, but when the dust settles and the smoke clears, the real war is always over the same question - whom will we believe? Whom will we listen to, God or the devil? ~ Kris Vallotton

People were suddenly subject to the curse, which caused them to perform for identity instead of operating out of their identity. This has led to all sorts of perversions - people working for love instead of from love, for instance, and men and women measuring their relationship with God by their disciplines instead of by their passion. ~ Kris Vallotton

It takes the Word of God plus the Spirit of God to equal the Truth of God. ~ Kris Vallotton

Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts. ~ Kris Vallotton

What do think about abortion?"
"I could feel the tension growing in the plane. I dropped my head, acknowledging that we had very different value systems for our lives. Then I thought of a way to respond to his question.
"You're Jewish, right?" I asked.
"Yes," he said defensively. "I told you I was!"
"Do you know how Hitler persuaded the German people to destroy more than six million of your Jewish ancestors?" The man looked at me expectantly, so I continued. "He convinced them that Jews were not human and then exterminated your people like rats."
I could see that I had his attention, so I went on. "Do you understand how Americans enslaved, tortured, and killed millions of Africans? We dehumanized them so our constitution didn't apply to them, and then we treated them worse than animals."
"How about the Native Americans?" I pressed. "Do you have any idea how we managed to hunt Indians like wild animals, drive them out of their own land, burn their villages, rape their women, and slaughter their children? Do you have any clue how everyday people turned into cruel murderers?"
My Jewish friend was silent, and his eyes were filling with tears as I made my point. "We made people believe that the Native Americans were wild savages, not real human beings, and then we brutalized them without any conviction of wrongdoing! Now do you understand how we have persuaded mothers to kill their own babies? We took the word fetus, which is the Latin word for ~ Kris Vallotton

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general. ~ Kris Vallotton

But any time you have a thought in your head about you that didn't come from the heart of God, you're trespassing against your own body. ~ Kris Vallotton

The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy. ~ Kris Vallotton

The truth is, Jesus didn't die for junk. ~ Kris Vallotton

Now let's put this all together. Jesus prayed in John 17 that the Body of Christ would be united with the Godhead in the same way that He Himself is united with His Father. The implication is that when people see us, they have seen the Father. And if they don't believe us on account of our words, they should believe us on account of our works, because we are to do greater works than Jesus did. That is the kind of unity that will cause the world to know that the Kingdom of God has come near them! ~ Kris Vallotton

Fear is the most socially accepted sin in the Church. Fear is a serial killer, the prime suspect in the death of more people on the planet than all other diseases combined. Fear in every form has been linked to heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disorders, mental illness and many other sicknesses. Fear is the welcome mat to demonic activity in our lives. ~ Kris Vallotton

REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU'VE MADE BITTERNESS AND HATRED YOUR BEST FRIENDS, IF YOU CARRY THEM AROUND LONG ENOUGH, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY EAT YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT. ~ Kris Vallotton

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil. ~ Kris Vallotton

Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do? ~ Kris Vallotton

We were not created to be average or mediocre. We have been summoned by God and empowered by His Spirit to step out of the crowd and be counted among the brave. We must refuse to hide among the riskless, mindless, zombielike flock. We must put on the mind of Christ and expose the world to the supernatural wisdom of the ages - wisdom that stuns the intelligent, silences the critics and transforms our cities and nations. Jesus said that we are to make disciples of all nations and teach them the ways of the Kingdom. ~ Kris Vallotton

The devil is the ultimate pervert. He is a master at twisting Scriptures to imprison, disempower, deceive and destroy people. The most destructive weapon in the world is the Word of God in the hands of the devil. The Bible misapplied is worse than a lie - it is religion. Religion starts wars, divides believers and oppresses people. The devil even used the Bible to tempt Jesus in the wilderness. ~ Kris Vallotton

You were born to be amazing. ~ Kris Vallotton

How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have? ~ Kris Vallotton

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice. ~ Kris Vallotton

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress. ~ Kris Vallotton

(Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.) ~ Kris Vallotton

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back. ~ Kris Allen

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song. ~ Kris Allen

Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto. ~ Kris Kidd

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone. ~ Kris Humphries

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know? ~ Kris Holden-Ried

The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There's an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It's human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn't right, but we do. ~ Kris Kidd

'Cancer' is such a frightening word. ~ Kris Carr

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it. ~ Kris Carr

Don't be fooled by the magic of the world. ~ Kris Villarreal

You were trying to find a way to get rid of yourself,
but you were still left with your mouth. ~ Kris Kidd

Not now, I'm having a showgirl shutdown. ~ Kris Embrey

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. ~ Kris Kristofferson

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. ~ Kris Carr

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning. ~ Kris Kidd

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. ~ Kris Allen

We live now in a world where any insult is treated like being shot at by a .38 at four feet. ~ Kris Saknussemm

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music. ~ Kris Allen

Change your plate. Change your fate. ~ Kris Carr

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over. ~ Kris Radish

I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about. ~ Kris Jenner

I love any kind of candy. ~ Kris Allen

It's a proving ground thing. But once you realize you have responsibilities to others, you go a bit more lightly. My son used to be pure liquid evil in a bar fight. He doesn't go to bars or fight anymore--because he has a wife and a young daughter. If you attacked them, heaven help you--but he is peaceful and Big Picture now unto himself. ~ Kris Saknussemm

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. ~ Kris Carr

I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave. ~ Kris Harte

A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning. ~ Kris Jenner

I think it's pretty common to hold onto people, to bribe them with things, say, a body, in the hopes of keeping them from leaving you. I don't think it's uncommon to invert such behaviors, to become something unlovable, in an effort to speed up the process of the inevitable. Fighting is an instinct. So is running. Everybody knows how to destroy a good thing. It's easy. ~ Kris Kidd

The gaunt, unhealthy vegan is the muffin vegan. Bread and fries and processed veggie dogs. It's like, 'Hello? Did you eat your vegetables?' ~ Kris Carr

Couples who play together, stay together. ~ Kris Garden

Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease. ~ Kris Carr

You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon them
because you know for a fact that you will worship
anything you kneel before.
Like God.
Like cock.
Like porcelain. ~ Kris Kidd

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing. ~ Kris Carr

You can be the person who puts the 'kick me' sign on the back, or be the person that watches it happen and does nothing, or you can be the person who takes the sign off.

That's it. Every day, every moment of your life, you're making this choice. Life doesn't stop for it, challenges don't make way for it, the choice is there and you own it. Welcome to adulting. ~ Kris Rafferty