Tricia Goyer > Tricia's Quotes

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“God created you with special talents for a purpose, and sometimes those we love most don't understand that. Don't let the doubts of others ring louder than God's whispers to your spirit. Sometimes God's whispers are harder to hear, but they're to be trusted the most.”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“Her whole life she always pictured falling in love being full of nervous emotion, peaks of romance, and the excitement of wondering if he loved her as much as she loved him. But maybe love was simpler. Maybe true love was finding someone you could talk to with ease, whose heart cared for the same things, and whose dreams could meld with your own.”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“Sunlight and shade,' his oma had commented once. Jathan liked that, mostly because shade meant that even though things were dim for a time, the sun was still there, just on the other side of the barrier.”
― Tricia Goyer, The Memory Jar

“Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”
― Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”
Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”
Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”
Mom: “Television is a passivity.”
Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”
Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”
Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”
Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”
Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”
Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”
Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”
Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“French parents are provided with very different information about food, and about children's eating habits, than American parents. This is because French doctors, teachers, nutritionists, and scientists, view the relationship between children, food and parenting very differently than do North Americans. They assume, for example, that all children will learn to like vegetables. And they have carefully studied strategies for getting them to do so. French psychologists and nutritionists have systematically assessed the average number of times children will have to taste new foods before they willingly agree to eat them: the average is seven, but most parenting books recommend between ten and fifteen.”
― Karen le Billon, French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters

“She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.”
― Tricia Goyer, Love Finds You in Glacier Bay, Alaska

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.”
― Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Highland Blessings

“Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.”
― Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

“Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.”
― Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

“The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.”
― Phil Cooke

“Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.”
― Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.”
― Eugenia Price, Early Will I Seek Thee

“The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.”
― Catherine Marshall, Christy

“She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors.”
― Tricia Goyer, Mom's Night Out

“A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.”
― Pam Farrel, Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti Devotional Study Guide

“What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?”
― Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: Celebrating Marriage as a Spiritual Discipline

“With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have.”
― Tricia Goyer, The One Year Book of Amish Peace: Hearing God's Voice in the Simple Things