Krista Ehlers > Krista's Quotes

“Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.”
― Floyd Patterson

“TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining: those “sister sins” that so easily entangle you.”
― Sarah Young, Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence

“Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.”
― Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

“One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.”
― Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

“If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.”
― Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

“God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.”
― Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life

“Surplus [Money Mindset]: Feeling grateful and ready to share

Members of the surplus group believe they have more than enough. They don’t constantly long for more. They display a high level of contentment even if their lifestyle is average — or below. Their purchases match their needs, not their income. And because they feel grateful, they are ready to share. Most joyfully give away more than 10 percent of their gross income.”
― Brad Hewitt

“He Spread his hands flat on the marble, as if examining a manicure. 'When I was a child in the seventies, Syrian army special forces entered my country. They supported Sunni militias. Unleashed them. My entire family was tortured and killed. My mother and sister,
raped and murdered. My father, dishonored and shot. Two brothers. Seven cousins. Three aunts, an uncle.... I've done a lot of things for a long time now,' Leo said in his same clipped, even voice. 'But I will never for the life of me understand what you rich, safe people fight about.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Tell No Lies

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

“That night I make my special pasta carbonara. You fry fresh rosemary in olive oil, with a pinch of salt and insane amounts of finely chopped garlic. Add a little chopped pancetta, then make the sauce by adding a pint of whole milk and curdling it with a tablespoon of vinegar. Boil it down for ten minutes, and mix in a couple of beaten eggs right at the end. Sprinkle on some finely shaved fresh parmesan—never the pre-grated stuff—and coarsely ground black pepper. Good stuff. When I ask Dad the significance of Nineveh, he’s so excited that he can’t stop talking even with long thin worms of sauce-flecked spaghettini burrowing greedily into his mouth. “Ashurbanipal. Assyrian”
― Richard Farr, The Fire Seekers

“Americans call it a cell. A small locked room from which you can’t escape! We Brits call it a mobile—a colorful toy you suspend over a drooling infant’s crib.”
― Richard Farr, The Fire Seekers

“In a car you could just sit, you didn’t have to be getting on with anything, you didn’t have to prepare vegetables, or dig the garden or run sheets through the mangle.”
― Emma Healey, Elizabeth Is Missing

“Just look what they did to me!” we defy and point to our hurts. “Just look what I did for you,” he reminds and points to the cross.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Student Edition

“We do our way into better feelings. We do not feel our way into better doing.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Student Edition

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You get married to have an ally against your family.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“The way to “victory” is not in trying to overcome your dispiriting emotions directly but in building a deeper sense of safety and at-homeness and a more incarnate knowledge that you are deeply loved. Then, little by little, you will stop giving so much power to strangers. Do not be discouraged. Be sure that God will truly fulfill all your needs. Keep remembering that. It will help you not to expect that fulfillment from people who you already know are incapable of giving it.”
― Henri Nouwen

“Faith is precisely trusting that you who give gratuitously will receive gratuitously, but not necessarily from the person to whom you gave.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

“When you get exhausted, frustrated, overwhelmed, or run down, your body is saying that you are doing things that are none of your business. God does not require of you what is beyond your ability, what leads you away from God, or what makes you depressed or sad.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

“he’d come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they’d done.”
― Louise Penny, The Long Way Home

“the four statements that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry.”
― Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

“Do you know what lack of sleep does to the brain, Ingrid?”
“The Norwegian state funded six years of research for you to find out, Ståle, so I would regard it as a waste of my taxes if I also knew.”
― Jo Nesbø, Police

“You are inclined to do something about the externals of your pain in order to relieve it; this explains why you often seek revenge. But real healing comes from realizing that your own particular pain is a share in humanity’s pain. That realization allows you to forgive your enemies and enter into a truly compassionate life.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

“Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.”
― Henning Mankell, Die fünfte Frau