Anita Estes > Anita's Quotes

“There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.”
― Lauren F. Winner, Girl Meets God

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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

“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Rest and be thankful.”
― William Wordsworth

“With the letter in hand and handbag flapping at her waist, Margo raced across the backyard to the studio and flung open the door. Mumbling to herself, she almost forgot her mission to inform Chris. Maybe this was the secret Grandma had referred to for years. It didn’t seem plausible, but what if it was true? Her husband stepped out of the office. “Talking to yourself again?” he teased as he walked toward her, passing stacks of pots waiting to be fired. Margo jumped—her usual response when jostled from her inner world. If only she didn’t plunge so deep in thought she’d be more aware…and not carry on a one-sided conversation. “What’s”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“Their houses of prayer are stone cold or divided. Our most detestable rival will soon lose His most passionate ally in this town, and we shall rule!”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“Celestial music blended with the sounds of rushing waters, and they harmonized to produce a heavenly experience. The music wrapped around her and dwelt within. She and the music of the ages were one, enveloped in rivers of love. Only one thought disturbed her:”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“the moonbeams cast eerie shadows across the gravestones. A group of hooded figures encircled a stone, like specters presiding over their dead. Though”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“Retrieving the torn letter, she folded it with trembling hands and placed it in her bag that doubled for a purse and portfolio of sketches.”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“The autumn leaves blazed a trail down the mountainside, spilling into a pool of cornfields outside of town. Mesmerized by nature’s beauty and mulling over the letter’s contents, Margo missed the stop sign. A car went speeding through and nearly crashed into her. She”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“Margo twisted her hair. Her multilevel strands of thought turned to her previous computer research concerning her missing relative, part of the family secret. It had proven somewhat successful, but”
― Anita Estes, The Dividing Stone

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― Jim Elliot

“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
― Jim Elliot

“My father allowed a calamity to keep him from moving forward in his life and finding joy.”
― Janet S. Grunst, Setting Two Hearts Free

“trapped like a fly in a spider’s web. The more you struggle, at first, the tighter the silken threads are woven around you, until finally escape becomes impossible.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

“But feet are your unadorned self, regardless of who you proclaim yourself to be.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water