Camille Eide > Camille's Quotes

“You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.”
― Stormie Omartian, Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”
― Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman

“We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.”
― Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“With each surrender of my will, I find myself a little freer in my soul, a little less chained to myself, a little closer to God, a little more like Him." -Johnny Devine”
― Camille Eide, The Memoir of Johnny Devine

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

“Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.”
― Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly

“Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
That's what I want from you.
The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,
But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.
Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.”
― Beethoven

“The bright hours when the young rebelled against the descending sun had to give way to twenty-four-hour periods called “days” that were named as well as numbered. The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring