I love words, especially those that cause me to stop and ponder. I enjoy how an impactful statement can be made in just one or two lines: a statement that will have me thinking the rest of the day.

That is exactly what this list of morning inspirations is intended for. A short quote that you can reflect on throughout the day to grow your faith, change your heart, or just make you a better person.

These 100 quotes are a combination of Bible verses as well as insightfully spoken words from godly men and women who have inspired me in my walk with God.

Be sure to pin this post so you can come back to it often. These words are perfect for writing in cards, texting, or scribbling on a post it and hanging where they will catch your eye. Let’s fill our minds with inspiring content and chase away the negative.

• Day 1: “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 2: A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs 15:1)
• Day 3: “The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.” Amy Carmichael
• Day 4: Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! (Psalm 133:1)
• Day 5: “Faith’s most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 6: Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love. (1 Corinthians 16:13-14)
• Day 7: “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 8: “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” John Piper
• Day 9: Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)
• Day 10: “The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.” Elisabeth Elliot

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• Day 11: Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. (1 Timothy 6:11)
• Day 12: “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 13: Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5)
• Day 14: “To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 15: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:34)
• Day 16: “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 17: Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:18)
• Day 18: “Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 19: The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. (Proverbs 29:25)
• Day 20: “Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 21: Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. (Philippians 4:8)
• Day 22: “All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them.” Hudson Taylor
• Day 23: “All along, let us remember we are not asked to understand, but simply to obey…” Amy Carmichael

• Day 24: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7)
• Day 25: “Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 26: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6)
• Day 27: “By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 28: Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you. (Isaiah 41:10)
• Day 29: “Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person’s seemingly small act of obedience? Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 30: For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. (Titus 2:11-13)

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• Day 31: “When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 32: In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3)
• Day 33: “Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 34: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
• Day 35: “You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.” John Piper
• Day 36: And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. (1 Peter 4:8-9)
• Day 37: “God’s viewpoint is sometimes different from ours – so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things….In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 38: “Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 39: “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3)
• Day 40: “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 41: “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” (Mark 11:24)
• Day 42: “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 43: “And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.” (Deuteronomy 31:8)
• Day 44: “God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God’s refusals are always merciful — “severe mercies” at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 45: Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matthew `11:28-30)
• Day 46: “When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 47: For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39)
• Day 48: “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 49: “By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 50: These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

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• Day 51: Someone has said, “Either God’s Word will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God’s Word.” Derek Prince
• Day 52: “I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 53: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58)
• Day 54: “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 55: And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith. (Galatians 6:9-10)
• Day 56: “Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 57: “We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.” Oswald Chambers
• Day 58: “I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 59: And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
• Day 60: “He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…” Corrie Ten Boom
• Day 61: “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)
• Day 62: “I think God wants to make me pure gold, so He is burning out the dross, teaching me the meaning of the fire, the burnt offering, the death of the self-part of me.” Amy Carmichael
• Day 63: “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.” Oswald Chambers
• Day 64: “Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?” John Bunyan
• Day 65: My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (James 1:2-4)
• Day 66: “Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.” Elisabeth Elliot
• Day 67: Then Jesus spake unto them saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
• Day 68: “Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” Charles Spurgeon
• Day 69: And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)
• Day 70: “We will have all eternity to celebrate our victories, but only a few short hours to win them.” Amy Carmichael

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• Day 71: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
• Day 72: “It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.” Charles Stanley
• Day 73: “When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.” Hannah Hurnard
• Day 74: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4)
• Day 75: “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.” John Bunyan
• Day 76: Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. (Psalm 112:4)
• Day 77: “God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.” John Piper
• Day 78: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. (Psalm 46:1-2)
• Day 79: “Wherever you encounter domination, you can be sure that it is satanic. That is not how God rules people.” Derek Prince
• Day 80: “The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.” Hannah Hurnard
• Day 81: Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6)
• Day 82: “He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.” John Bunyan
• Day 83: “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Day 84: “God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.” Derek Prince
• Day 85: “Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.” Hannah Hurnard
• Day 86: You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah (Psalm 32:7)
• Day 87: “It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.” John Bunyan
• Day 88: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)
• Day 89: “God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.” Hannah Hurnard
• Day 90: “Live in the moment and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering” Fanny Crosby
• Day 91: “Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.” John Piper
• Day 92: And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen! (2 Timothy 4:18)
• Day 93: “The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.” Hudson Taylor
• Day 94: Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. (1 Timothy 6:17-19)
• Day 95: “You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.” John MacArthur
• Day 96: “Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day’s duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.” Mary Slessor
• Day 97: “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Day 98: No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)
• Day 99: “Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin each day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.” Hudson Taylor
• Day 100: The name of the Lord is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10)

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