Grace Johnson > Grace's Quotes

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”
― William Faulkner

“We're all good. We're all bad. The hero in our own stories. The villain in someone else's.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“Now was different than every day of my past. And I hoped my future could be just as sweet.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Held Captive

“Xavier would compare the land to his God, I knew, and His faithfulness and steadfast love. He would say how no matter what, God was always there. God had no mountains and valleys or storms and quakes. He could not erode or wash away. Eventually land would do that, I knew. But while I roamed the earth for my short life, I could rely on land to remain as it was. I could rely on God for all eternity. He never changed. He was the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And His faith never faltered, His trust never faded, and His love never failed.
But what I was unsure of was whether I believed in such amazing love and faith. If I believed that Someone so great could actually forgive someone so wretched. Xavier would tell me He would, if only I let Him. Yet how I would reply to that, I knew not either.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Held Captive

“It is the Will of Heaven, that the two Countries should be sundered forever. It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the Case, it will have this good Effect, at least: it will inspire Us with many Virtues, which We have not, and correct many Errors, and Vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy Us. – The Furnace of Affliction produces Refinement, in States as well as Individuals…. But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.”
― John Adams

“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and… from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.”
― Samuel Adams

“Let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe…. Let us joyfully leave our concerns in the hands of Him who raises up and puts down the empires and kingdoms of the earth as He pleases.”
― John Hancock

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”
― Maurice Freehill

“The Lord's will would be done. All I had to do was follow His voice.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“She was more than just a name. She was a face with eyes as deep as the ocean. She was wrists that had been scarred. She was a mother without her child. She was a heart that had been broken.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“Grace is not merited. Forgiveness is not earned. Love is not bought. Each are given freely by the only One who can.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“Maybe it took the ugly things--the ashes, the scraps, the dirt--to grow the beautiful things.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“Love always has a place.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“Strike a little terror into him, Phillip. It would do him good.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“Often, significant moments in life are only identifiable in hindsight, but every now and then something happens that announces its significance with trumpeted preamble and terrifying implications.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, An Elegant Façade

“Trust God to give you what you need when you need it. If you get it too early, you might misplace it.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, An Elegant Façade

“Who am I, who are we, to questions the works of our Lord? For we are but mere mortals, created by Him and for Him. What life we call ours does not belong to us. And it is grace that we be taken from this dark earth.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Prisoner at Heart

“There are dungeons beneath the castles of despair.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“She gave so freely. Out of her plenty, yes - but not just that. She gave of her heart, of her soul. She gave in her loneliness and she gave in her friendships and she gave in her hurt and her pain.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“None of us can change anyone else - not unless they want to do it themselves. " But the Lord could.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“What do you think heroism is but doing what needs to be done when the situation tries to prevent it?”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“You'll either be a villain or a hero, Phil. Try to pick the right one, will you?”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“Do you ever have any fun?"
"Loads of it. Just not the sort that lands me in trouble."
"We seem to have different definitions of fun.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“Asking for favors puts me in a foul temper."
"Everything puts you in a foul temper."
"That is blatantly untrue. Pretty girls put me in a lovely frame of mind.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“We cannot defeat circumstances with circumstances. When an unforeseen event has crushed us, another cannot make it better.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“Whatever He asks of us, whether it be a fortune or a pittance or our time or our devotion, we can be sure it will be painful. Cutting out what stands between us and God always is. But we can also trust that in the giving, we'll gain something far more precious.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“He does always say that sound planning is the backbone of spontaneity.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“He needed to help. Someone, somehow. He needed to prove, if only in some small way, that he was worthwhile.”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion

“He does not ask everyone to give all they have. But if He does, are we willing?”
― Roseanna M. White, On Wings of Devotion