Nancy Roach > Nancy's Quotes

“Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Jesus didn’t enable people. Jesus didn’t beg people. Jesus didn’t accept excuses for sin or let people off the hook because they were mostly good.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“If someone is getting in the way of you becoming the person God created you to be or frustrating the work God has called you to do, for you that person is toxic.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too.”
― Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

“The person who continues to break your heart isn’t in a place to properly care for your heart.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“Having your life turned upside down is brutally devastating, but it can help shake loose some emotionally unhealthy issues that need tending.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“Healthy people who desire healthy relationships don’t have an issue with other people’s healthy boundaries.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“You are whole and healthy when who you are as a child of God is in alignment with what you know (orthodoxy), what you feel (orthopathy), and what you do (orthopraxy).”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“I also don’t want my goodbyes to make it look like I’ve never spent any time with Jesus at all.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“What hurts us will not be our full story.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“I’m unmarried because everyone sees me as a friend. No one ever has any romantic interest in me.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“Not merely in the words you say, Not only in your deeds confessed, But in the most unconscious way Is Christ expressed. Is it a beatific smile? A holy light upon your brow? Oh no! I felt his presence”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“When you laughed just now. To me, ’twas not the truth you taught, To you so clear, to me still dim, But when you came you brought A sense of him. And from your eyes he beckons me And from your heart his love is shed, Till I lose sight of you And see The Christ instead. —Anonymous”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“All will be well, as Julian of Norwich concluded. “And all manner of things will be well.”8”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“Numerous studies have shown that women who report a close and caring relationship with their fathers, who received assurance, enjoyment, and approval from them during childhood, suffer less from eating disorders or depression and “developed a strong sense of personal identity and positive self-esteem.”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“The tears . . . streamed down, and I let them flow as freely as they would, making of them a pillow for my heart. On them it rested.”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“I’m telling you that the church has really crippled women when it tells them that their beauty is vain and they are at their feminine best when they are “serving others.”
― John Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“long. “Oh my god!” Parker shrieked. “I can’t believe you almost got killed by a Volkswagen Beetle! I mean, at least pick something cool, like a Tesla.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Maybe I needed to feel safe and accepted in my pain before I was set free from this daily misery.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Of course, our parents get an extra dose of importance in our minds. When we’re little, they’re everything—the gods and goddesses that rule our worlds. It takes a lot of growing up, and a lot of disappointment, to accept that they’re just normal, bumbling, mistaken humans, like everybody else.”
― Katherine Center , Things You Save in a Fire

“But there is ample evidence inside and outside the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry”
― Nijay K. Gupta, Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church