Ellen Senechal > Ellen's Quotes

“Heart and flesh often fail. Let them fail! He faileth not.”
― Hudson Taylor

“Forget the dogs; books were man's best friend.”
― Jesseca Wheaton, A Question of Honor

“I may not know much, but I know this: You can't save the world, Tyler. You were never created to, and you're gonna fail every time you try. Because only one Person can do that job. And He never fails.”
― Sarah Grace Grzy, Never Say Goodbye

“We all have our issues. If we waited until we didn't before doing anything in this life, we'd be dead.”
― Sarah Grace Grzy, Never Say Goodbye

“I find it hard to live by faith, and confide entirely in God, when the way is dark before me. But if the way were plain and easy, where would be the room for confidence in God?”
― Ann Judson

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful, and that is why you must write with Christ at the center of your reason for writing. That does not mean that every book must be a retelling of Luke’s gospel, however, every worthy book written by a Christian will direct readers away from self, and sin, and put them on a quest for God and his gospel. Create longing for these things.”
― Douglas Bond

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”
― Max Lucado

“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“He blew out a puff of air. "A long time ago God taught me something, Jayne. He made me realise that He was bigger than my problems and far stronger than all my weaknesses.”
― Lauren Compton, Jayne's Endeavour

“All's well that ends better.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“We will meet again.” Then, in a lower tone, [Jigson] added, “Whether on this shore or the next.”
― C.R. Hedgcock, Prisoner of the Pyrenees

“Peace made him bold; his life was in God's hands, and there it would always stay. 'The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
― C.R. Hedgcock, Prisoner of the Pyrenees

“The biggest, most crucial, most significant thing I want you to know is that my life's task is to follow Jesus.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“Our youth is by God's grace, in God's hands, and for God's fame.”
― Jaquelle Crowe, This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
― Gary Provost

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”
― Molly Evangeline

“We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.”
― Paul Washer, The Gospel's Power & Message

“The most dangerous prayer a human being could every pray, "Lord, make me like Christ. I don't care if you have to dethrone me, I don't care if you have to tear apart my ministry, I don't care if you have to destroy me, I don't care what happens - make me like Jesus Christ!" It's practically calling a death sentence upon yourself. But then again, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abideth alone, but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
― Paul Washer

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“To forgive at all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive forever--here is a panorama of wonders. And when I think of how great my sins were, how dear the precious drops that cleansed me from them, and how gracious was the method by which pardon was sealed home to me, I am a maze of wondering, worshipping affection. I bow before the throne that absolves me, I clasp the cross that delivers me, and all my days I give to serve the Incarnate God, through whom I am this night a pardoned soul.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon