Penny Johnston > Penny's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“Because of justification, you are completely forgiven and fully pleasing to God. You no longer have to fear failure.     2. Because of reconciliation, you are totally accepted by God. You no longer have to fear rejection.     3. Because of propitiation, you are deeply loved by God. You no longer have to fear punishment, nor do you have to punish others.     4. Because of regeneration, you have been made brand-new, complete in Christ. You no longer need to experience the pain of shame.”
― Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Seeing Your True Worth Through God's Eyes

“Rinnen scowled. “I didn’t come here after thirteen days to practice solo drills I could do at home.”

“You didn’t come here to cry, either,” Linazon said mildly, “but some things aren’t for you to decide.”

“I’m not crying,” Rinnen growled.

Linazon nodded. “You might consider it.”
― Penny Johnston, To Be Called Worthy

“To ride the stomach-startling careen past the boundaries of our control and into the divine purpose.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“My hands are empty,” she replied, “but anything can be a weapon.”
― Penny Johnston, To Be Called Worthy

“If God's asking you to do something, He's also promising to go with you.”
― Amanda G. Stevens, Far and Near

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“...it suddenly hit him, almost like a blow in the face, how silly it was to be singing about safety and still to be afraid of every whisper in the undergrowth. If he really was safe in Jesus' arms, what was there to be afraid of?”
― H. Maxwell Butcher, Rescue at Harper's Landing

“Imagine an animal out in the the forest with its foot caught in a trap. Normally an animal would never gnaw their foot off, but they are terrified, they are desperate, and they do it. These people are being cheated on, emotionally abused, physically battered, and treated with contempt. They love the Lord and honor marriage, but don't tell them to go back and put their foot back into the trap.”
― Gretchen Baskerville, The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships

“Tahn crept up the stone wall like a reptile silent after its prey.”
― L.A. Kelly, Tahn (The Tahn Saga Book #1): A Novel

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

“Oh, for a cast-iron frying pan.”
― Penny Johnston, To Be Called Worthy

“Well, you're too old to learn any younger.”
― Penny Johnston, Chief Bladesinger

“Thanks for whatever that was, but it was weird. I'd rather spar.”
― Penny Johnston, Chief Bladesinger

“It's hard," he said after a long moment. "Trusting the Maker."

Grandfather nodded solemnly. "Yes. But I think not trusting him would be harder.”
― Penny Johnston, Chief Bladesinger

“We act like this world is all there is. We even live like it. But there's more. Something that's maybe even more real than here.”
― Penny Johnston, Chief Bladesinger