Emily > Emily's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
― James Thurber

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
― Brennan Manning

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
― Brennan Manning

“The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'

'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.”
― Donald Miller

“I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.”
― Donald Miller

“Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.”
― Brennan Manning, Souvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace

“Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer, "Oh, I know that. It's old hat."

And God answers, 'No, that's what you don't know. You don't know how much I love you. The moment you think you understand is the moment you do not understand. I am God, not man. You tell others about Me - your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. The next time you preach about My love with such obnoxious familiarity, I may come and blow your whole prayer meeting apart.

Did you know that every time you tell Me you love Me, I say thank you?”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place."

Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”
― Brennan Manning

“Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Music I discovered that night, was a sanctuary, a safe place to hide, a place where scars didn't matter, they didn't exist.”
― Len Vlahos, The Scar Boys

“People would come and people would go, I realized then, but music would be there until the end of time.”
― Len Vlahos, The Scar Boys

“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.”
― Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline