Sally Chambers > Sally's Quotes

“Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.”
― Oswald Chambers

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.”
― Robin Lee Hatcher, Fit to Be Tied

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.”
― a.a. milne, The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“It's more than shadows

That carry me through

Not some empty shadowed faith

Of some empty idols

Its the faith that allows me to do

What I do

Faith in the man that

Died for me on that cross

On Calvary

The man that gave me

The words I write

And the words I pray.”
― Michelle Kidwell

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

“The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” ~Maya Angelou”
― C. S. Lakin, Writing the Heart of Your Story: The Secret to Crafting an Unforgettable Novel

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

“No book or magazine article is for "everyone" so know your audience, then target them with your writing.”
― W. Terry Whalin, Book Proposals That Sell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”
― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi