Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt Quotes

“And there it is again -- that profound lesson about choices. Once we make them, we're tied to them, and consequences will follow us. But we also need to know that each day we get the chance to choose all over again. And believe me, there's hope in that”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“People Can Say Something in a Second That Takes Years to Heal”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Isn't that how it always seems to work? One day you wake up, look around and wonder, Where am I? Whose life am I living, an how did I get here? Little pieces of the real you keep fitting away in someone else's wind until the you that you've always known has disappeared. It happens so gradually you don't even notice it at first.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Grace is already pouring down on you. In buckets. But so many of us are holding umbrellas over our heads, trying to protect ourselves”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“No—forgiving doesn’t equate to naive vulnerability. It doesn’t mean you have to invite the person who hurt you back to a place where he could hurt you again. It doesn’t mean you have to keep him in your circle of friends. You can forgive someone and still cut that person out of your life. Just because you forgive the one who hurt you, it doesn’t make that person suddenly safe for you. That realization was a watershed moment for me. It meant I no longer had to sit there”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“I was interpreting Justin’s treatment of me as my worth.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Life is too short to allow toxic bitterness to make its home in our hearts, gradually eating away chunks of what makes us, well . . . us.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Here’s the thing: when you get to a point where you’re actually experiencing what you wished for but never thought could be, you have to just let it sink in.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Everything we experience—every loss, every torment, every numbing pain—has something to teach us. Something that will make us stronger and wiser. But we spend so much energy attempting to outrun our agony that we don’t take the time to figure out what God is trying to reveal to us through it.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. MATTHEW 7:7 (NLT)”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“in order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt

“there’s a reason for me. And there’s a reason for you, too. There’s a reason we’re still breathing and talking and waking up in the morning. There’s a purpose”
― Christi Paul, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt