Licensed for Trouble Quotes

“I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“Jeremy had a mysterious, breath-taking allure about him, the feel of autumn, like riding down a leaf-strewn road, churning up the fragrance of tomorrow in her wake. Yes, Jeremy was a dangerous mix of something sweetly familiar and the enticing scent of change.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“I’m talking about your being your own worst enemy. If you label yourself as trouble, then it’s easy to tell yourself that people won’t love you. Can’t love you. You forgive them for rejecting you before they have a chance to hurt you. Like Peter, running back to fishing instead of facing what he thought was God’s rejection. Don’t you get it, PJ? You are holding yourself captive. But it doesn’t matter what I say, does it? Because if you can’t see it, if you can’t hear it, if you can’t believe it, then you’ll always go back to fishing.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“Remember how after Peter betrayed Jesus, he returned to fishing? He panicked . . . and despite all the change God had done in him, all he’d learned about Jesus, the Messiah, he went back to what he knew—the simple life of a fisherman. He only saw himself as a fisherman.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“But he wasn’t supposed to be there, and Jesus went after him. He called him back from his past, forgave him, reminded him that He had a new life for him, and then empowered him to go be that person.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble

“God often gives us our dreams to also show us something we didn’t even know we needed.”
― Susan May Warren, Licensed for Trouble