Jonas Quotes

“And I can also believe that God hasn’t abandoned me just because my life blew up. Feelings aren’t facts. The truth is that God loves me. And is up to something good in my life. Something you pointed out to me just a few weeks ago, bro.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“Just make sure that you fight the battle God has given you, and not one of your own making.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I’ll discover Him at the center.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“Please forgive my unbelief. My anger. My pride.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“He will keep in perfect peace he whose mind is stayed on Him, because he trusts in Him. That’s where you should go when your thoughts lead you to panic. God will give you your next steps.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“in a fight, I need to ignore about fifty percent of what I’m feeling, about twenty percent of what I think I hear, and go with what I know. What the truth is. Otherwise, we get caught up in the destruction of the fight, and we end up much more wounded than we need to be.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“on the One who is stronger than the storm.” Silence. “It doesn’t mean you stop fighting. But maybe your fight is to simply trust.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“Sometimes, all you’re called to do is stand.” “Stand?” Fraser said. “Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“suffering reveals who you really are. And what you really believe.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“always hated that story because I felt like Jesus got angry with them for being afraid. But what He was saying is ‘I’m aware of you and your storms and your dangers, even when it feels like I’m “sleeping.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“GSP”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“But Jonas was there anyway. God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I’ll discover Him at the center.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“I don’t know. It feels like God should save us from tragedy.” “It does. Yes. From our perspective, always. But while I can’t see past one meter, He can. And His purposes and thoughts are much greater than mine. So…I trust Him in the storm. In fact, I even run into them. And there, I expect to see Him already at the center.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“He quoted a verse from Isaiah. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’ And then Dad said that God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I’ll discover Him at the center.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“The hope of salvation. The fact that into the middle of our darkness, God reaches out and saves us. This is the miracle of Jesus. Of redemption.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“I hate war too.” He sighed. “But as long as evil persists in the world—and it will until Jesus returns—there will be wars.” He looked up at the monument. “But we don’t stop living just because there is war. There is still love. There is still joy. That’s a lesson that took years for me to learn, and I might have lost it again if it weren’t for you.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“I don’t need to be married to be happy.” “No. But a partner, in love, walks the road with you. Helps to make sense out of the life we live. Gives it meaning.” She opened her mouth, but he held up his hand. “I’m not saying you don’t have meaning alone. But it is one of the ways God helps us survive, even—to use your grandmother’s term—bloom. God is love, and that love is often seen best between a husband and wife. And children. Loving someone gives life meaning, no matter how long it lasts.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas

“But as long as evil persists in the world— and it will until Jesus returns— there will be wars.”
― Susan May Warren, Jonas: A Minnesota Marshalls Novel