Blessed > Blessed's Quotes

“I’m not trying to keep you from flying, I’m trying to keep you from falling. And I will never, ever let you hit the ground.”
― Ashley Worrell, The Splendor of Fire

“Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places

“Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places

“I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. 6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible Text Edition NLT: New Living Translation

“The age-old conviction that God's Word belongs in our hearts has been replaced by the idea that we can simply carry it in our pockets and store it on our shelves.”
― Dakota Lynch, Remember the Words: Why and How to Make Scripture Memory a Way of Life

“To love God with our minds is to be loyal to the Lord with our attention, seeking to understand, comprehend, and desire Him.”
― Phylicia D. Masonheimer, Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously.

“I don’t know the mind of Elohim. I wish I did.” She sighed. “But I know there is a reason for everything he does, and even if my human mind can’t wrap itself around his plan, I will follow. All I know is what my father told me from the time I was a tiny girl. Elohim will rescue us, and as we suffer under the hand of Pharaoh, he is building us, preparing us for something.” “For what?” “For something we cannot even imagine.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Counted with the Stars

“With food, cultures are transcended, walls are broken down, heartfelt stories are seasoned and salted. There’s a reason that the kitchen is called “the heart of the home.” It’s where love is blended.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Adulting is hard. Even at twenty-eight, I haven’t mastered it. There are moments when I don't want to be strong, or independent, or responsible. There are moments I want someone else to take the risk, or make the decision, or tell me what to do.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Poppy, all the blood has drained from your cheeks. You’re like ten shades paler than usual. And that’s saying something because you’re already very pale.” He reaches over and pokes my cheek. “Just checking to make sure you’re not secretly the walking dead.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“If two people really loved each other and they were willing to fight for that love, if they were willing to go to war for each other, day after day, then it didn’t matter what they were up against. Love would always win as long as they never stopped fighting for it.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Music settles my own soul, chases away the shadows.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“Only the giver of life has sovereignty over death.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“it is not you or I who hold life in our hands. We are not Yahweh. We are only vessels to be used for his purposes.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“You are telling yourself lies and believing them. Instead of putting the oil of truth on those scars, you are allowing them to grow thicker. If you do not stretch those scars, tug at them, force movement into them, then they will continue to have a hold over you.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“It seems to me that Yahweh somehow takes the broken parts of us and builds something better than we could imagine.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“I needed to stretch the scar, even if it hurt, so that it did not hold me captive anymore.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“Lay your broken pieces down before Yahweh and let him make you into something new.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“That’s true, but I’ve always found a way before. I’ll find one this time.” She shrugged. “God provides. Sometimes when it’s last minute and it looks like he’s forgotten me.”
― Lynette Eason, Target Acquired ( Book #2): Christian Suspense Thriller with Mystery and Clean Romance

“She loved him but spent as little time as possible with him for her own mental health.”
― Lynette Eason, Target Acquired ( Book #2): Christian Suspense Thriller with Mystery and Clean Romance