Beth > Beth's Quotes

“sometimes we get so wrapped up in what we think we need to do to make something happen, we forget that God is actually the one orchestrating it all. Fighting our battles. God will show up even when we’ve made a mess of things. Even when it’s our fault—He will show up. Because that’s who He is—He loves us by choice, not because we deserve His help. There’s no if…just when. And His timing is perfect.”
― Susan May Warren, Ruby Jane

“You need to stop trying to rewrite the past. It’s done, the choices made, and here you are. You can only go forward.”
― Susan May Warren, No Matter the Cost

“You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunrise

“You don’t know what plans God has for you—but they’re good ones.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunrise

“will we trust God only when things go the way we want? The verse says to fear no evil for God is with you. The evil is the lies Satan wants to tell you—that you’ll never be anything.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunburst

“Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.’ That’s direction and protection. You don’t need to know where you’re going, just the one who is with you. And there is no one better to have on your side than the almighty God. He has a path, and it’s good.”
― Susan May Warren, Sunburst

“I used to think that way. That if God didn’t answer me, or not in the way I wanted, that he didn’t care or even like me. But that’s not true. I’ve started to see God at work all over my life. Now and in the past. He wasn’t ignoring me. I just didn’t see his work until I wanted to.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“It’s all knitted together in God’s timing and purpose. But we can’t possibly see the big picture. And from our vantage point, yes, it seems like evil is winning.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“The fact is, if you try to depend on yourself and all your amazing talents and abilities to fight this war, you will run dry. The more you try to control, the more you find slipping out of your hands. You must trust in God, in his victory. And in his goodness, even in the face of defeat. In fact, it is God’s goodness in us that even desires to fight evil. Without him, we would be helpless.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“try to redeem yourself. And you can’t just patch up the old, broken heart, either. You need a fresh start. But to get that, you have to surrender your old, faulty heart to God and let him put in you a heart of faith. A heart that belongs to him. And that changes everything because suddenly you don’t have to worry about proving yourself, fixing yourself, redeeming yourself. You are already redeemed.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“You’re seeing the world through your feelings. Not through truth. Not through God’s eyes. If he’s called you to something, Range, he’ll equip you, even if you don’t know how.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“God’s promises don’t depend on your feelings. They depend on his Word. Stop relying on yourself and let God use you how he wants.”
― Susan May Warren, Sundown

“I like good strong words that mean something," replied Jo,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Series

“Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, “I don’t believe it; boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.” I dare say you don’t, Mrs. Grundy, but it’s true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must; but mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women’s eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“There are plenty to love you, so try to be satisfied with father and mother, sisters and brothers, friends and babies, till the best lover of all comes to give you your reward.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“We’re supposed to be overwhelmed. Because if we can save ourselves, we don’t need God.”
― Susan May Warren, Rescue Me

“Jesus is Lord. Full stop. That means he knows the past, the future, and the now. And he wants you to live in truth, trusting him to fix it.”
― Susan May Warren, Rescue Me

“It’s not what happens to us, it’s how we respond. Being broken, being empty is part of life. But how we fill up those empty places, how we heal—that’s what matters.”
― Susan May Warren, Troubled Waters

“God is our refuge and our portion. Meaning, we don’t have to be enough. He is all we need. We either embrace that or we walk away empty-handed.”
― Susan May Warren, Troubled Waters

“I know you feel decimated, but don’t let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.”
― Susan May Warren, Storm Front

“None of us are ever enough, Megs. We can’t meet the needs of everyone—we can’t even meet our own needs. Let’s be honest. We wouldn’t need our Savior if we could.” Raina reached out and scratched Puck’s chin. “But that doesn’t mean you aren’t valuable, that you don’t matter. You do matter, simply because you are you. And unfortunately, people do break promises, make mistakes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love you or that God doesn’t love you.”
― Rachel D. Russell, Still the One

“Don’t assign truth to experiences, or your faith to your feelings. You have to base everything on who God is.”
― Susan May Warren, The Way of the Brave

“even when life hurts, he is good. And he is sovereign.”
― Susan May Warren, The Heart of a Hero