Rachel Lundy > Rachel's Quotes

“There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Through God's grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn't empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace (favor, kindness, ability) to bear it.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“My hope is not in the absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence of the One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God” (Rom. 8:39). Nothing.”
― Kara Tippetts, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard

“Cancer is a gift. There, I said it. I can say that cancer and suffering give the beautiful gift of perspective. It is the gift you never wanted, the gift wrapped in confusion and brokenness and heartbreak. It’s the gift that strips all your other ideas of living from you completely. The beautiful, ugly raising to the surface of the importance of each and every moment.”
― Kara Tippetts, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard

“It would be easier to shake my fist at the test results and scream that this isn’t the right story, but to receive—humbly receive—the story no one would ever want, and know there is goodness in the midst of its horror, is not something I could ever do in my own strength. I simply cannot. That receiving comes from the One who received His own suffering for a much greater purpose than my own.”
― Kara Tippetts, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard

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

“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
― Martin Luther

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

“Grace is the glue that holds relationships together as we walk through suffering with one another.”
― Jill Lynn Buteyn, Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together

“And yet the God who created glorious Pikes Peak knows each one of us. Wants each one of us. Cares that Kara is in pain. Cares that you or your person is suffering. Cares, cares, cares. The world wants to tell us that He doesn’t. But as Kara has told us many times, suffering is not the absence of God’s goodness.”
― Jill Lynn Buteyn, Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.”
― Amy Carmichael