Strong Women, Soft Hearts Quotes

“Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart’s desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“It turns out that playing it safe, at least in matters of the heart, is the most dangerous thing you can do. By that route, you become a butterfly pinned to the wall, with wonderful colors and all kinds of potential but going nowhere. Your wings are clipped. To really fly you must claim the courage to live out of your real self, the one God called into being.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“If you want to know real joy in life, then be willing to let pain tutor your soul.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Love anything . . . and your heart will be wrung. The more you succeed at love—the more you will have to lose. But honestly, would playing it safe and hedging your bets take you any place you really wanted to be? And as painful as love can be, could wisdom be won by any other means?”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“The strength to say “No” is required in order to love well.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“you can’t really love other people well unless you are at home in your own soul. You will simply be too afraid.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“When you taste a measure of being able to love and enjoy the people in your life, without having to have any particular response from them, you are tasting bliss. You can move out into life, and you don’t have to have your parking ticket stamped by human approval to do it.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Love Contains Both “Yes” And “No”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Herb Gardner wrote,
You have to own your days, every one of them,
Or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.2”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“The distance grows between our heads and our hearts and we lose our felt connection with the presence of God.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life

“Instead, reclaim your heart, then go back and ask God for the essence of your original hopes and dreams, the ones he means for you to carry into the future. They are necessary to make the journey well.”
― Paula Rinehart, Strong Women, Soft Hearts: A Woman's Guide to Cultivating a Wise Heart and a Passionate Life