Life Interrupted Quotes

“I want my life to radiate what happens when God has a person's heart at His full control, when every event or circumstance is simply another avenue to know Him better and show forth His glory.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Will you surrender your plans and purposes into the greater known of God's unknown designs for your life?”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“The decisions you're making today will impact your tomorrows.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Hold your own plans loosely and stay ready to submit to His. Consider them to be more important, more desirable than anything you could dream up on your own. He has come down to you with intentionality and purpose because He loves you and knows that you are never more secure than when you're in His will.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Do you feel like God is asking too much of you? As you scan the landscape of your present circumstances, is it hard to believe this is really what life has brought you to? Does God really expect something promising to come of what you're dealing with, what you're shackled with, what you're stuck with? Could anything be more unwanted or undesirable to you right now? If He didn't have so much meaning and potential and restoration to accomplish in the midst of it, you're right—it would be a tragic mess. But with everything He wants to achieve through you in this vital yet difficult season, there's another way to look at it. Consider it a privilege.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“The "word of the Lord" is designed to reshape your purposes, putting you in a position for Him to do through you what you cannot do on your own.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“We think we know what we want. In reality we should want nothing else but to be completely in line with His desires for us and His purposes in our generation. So we must resolve to let God be God on His terms, not ours.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“It is a privilege for us to look at circumstances and discern God's involvement in them. To recognize them as more than mere happenstance but rather God's own detailed design and plan. To see that He is allowing us to cooperate with Him in bringing life from death, growth from loss, testimony from tragedy.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, chin nestled in my hands, to see what God is going to do. With my children. With my husband. With me—a regular, everyday woman choosing to surrender to a life interrupted.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Making sense of God's call is not a prerequisite for following it. His Word and His promises are enough.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Sometimes the divine intervention of God means breaking allegiance with what you love.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“But often the greatest miracle God can perform for you is right in your own heart. The Bible says to “delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart” (Ps. 37:4).”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“We must take God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Someone has written, "The hardening of a tender heart almost always starts with a justifiable action."8 We think we know what we're doing. We consider our resistance toward God's plans and our lack of surrender to be minor compared to what others have done. We figure we do a lot of good things that ought to make up for our admitted weaknesses here and there, in one or two areas. We don't think God expects us to be so radical and on guard all the time. We've still got to have a life, right?”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“But like my young friend said, this is not the way it seems in the beginning. Before things go bad, it's just a night that sounds like a lot of fun. A day that feels like wasting. A risk that looks like something we can likely handle, a limb that'll probably hold our weight. We don't think getting back home will be a problem when we're finished. After all, we're not going far. Not until we're well down the mountain, much too far to pull ourselves easily back up to the top, we realize we've gotten ourselves into a mess. Instead of three or four good ways to get back on our feet, we now have maybe one—or none—none that don't come without a long, hard process, without a good bit of shame”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“Because in running toward what I thought was better, safer, more pleasurable, more fulfilling, less painful, less complicated, or less confining, I've actually been running from God, from His will, and from His blessing. And I'm tired of running. Aren't you?”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected

“God hasn't given up on us, my friend. Aren't you glad? Thank the Lord, for a second chance.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Life Interrupted: Navigating the Unexpected