Christine Reeves > Christine's Quotes

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.”
― Denver Moore, Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Don’t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution! That is our witness to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ!”
― Nik Ripken, The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“We both have some shattered edges,” he whispered. “But maybe God isn’t afraid of our brokenness. I hope he’s not, anyway.”
― Liz Johnson, The Last Way Home

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“What motivated me [to write] was that my disgrace was not the end of the story—or even the main part of the story. The real story was that Christ had reached down to me, even in my disgrace and shame, and revealed Himself as the One who forgives and makes new. Born Again is the story of a broken man transformed by the love and power of Jesus Christ—who continues to transform me every passing day.”
― Charles W. Colson

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last.”
― Mary-Kate Olsen

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Just because someone didn't have book smarts didn't mean they didn't have interesting thoughts.”
― Mandy Mikulencak, Forgiveness Road

“I've never seen them happier than when they'd lost everything and found each other and a faith in something greater than themselves.”
― Rachel Scott McDaniel, Undercurrent of Secrets

“It’s in our broken places God plants seeds of hope. He will grow something beautiful from ashes. Believe it.”
― Mollie Rushmeyer, The Bookshop of Secrets

“What is it with her and leaping into an abyss?”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“He nodded. “Oh, ambition. Yes. She has ambition by the bucket but she wants somebody else to carry the pail.”
― Nathan Lowell, The Wizard's Butler

“Live your life for you, and no one else”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“The only fears we have to fear is these fears itself.”
― Melania Trump