Wrapped in Rain Quotes

“We're all fallen people in a fallen world.

Where does a man find healing amid so many broken places? How does he find love in the ruins and vine-wrapped shattered pieces of his own soul?

Because love's springing up through the rocks.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“Child," she said placing her head to mine and her callused fingers on my cheek, "you can whip it and beat it senseless, you can drag it through the streets and spin on it, you can even dangle it from a tree, drive spikes trough it, and drain the last breath from it, but in the end, no matter what you do, and no matter how hard you try to kill it, love wins.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?' I nodded. 'Well, love is like that. Light doesn't have to announce it's way into a room or ask the darkness to leave. It just is. It walks ahead of you, and the darkness rolls back like a tide.' She waved her hand across the room. 'It has to 'cause darkness can't be where light is.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“Child, the Lord gives you what you need, when you need it.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“Remember, there’s an inverse relationship between your head and your heart. If your head swells, your heart shrinks. Tucker,”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“The stone had been rolled away... That fact alone demands a response.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that’s God’s little girl, baggage and all, so don’t go judging the cover. He doesn’t care what she looks like. He’ll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“Touch my lips with the burning coal, light me, and let it rain.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“Child, you listen to me, and you look me straight in the eyes when I’m talking to you. I may be just old hired help, and a country woman to boot, but I’m a human. And you know what? God thought of me. He actually took the time to dream me up. I may not be much to look at, but what you see first started in the mind of God, so don’t stand there and ignore me like I don’t exist. You remember that.” Miss”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“Listen here, child, that’s God’s little girl, baggage and all, so don’t go judging the cover. He doesn’t care what she looks like. He’ll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“On the other hand, I didn't have to ask Ms. Ella if she loved me, I knew, she told me everyday but seldom used words. From the age of 5, Ms. Ella taught me how to spell LOVE and I have never forgotten it. It's spelled T-I-M-E.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped in Rain

“when channeled, his combination of inferiority and insecurity, topped with an insatiable jealousy, created a ruthless tycoon who couldn’t care less about the people who worked for him or the companies he dismantled. Not to mention his two boys.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“good, ridding himself of both toxins and drugs. It looked like he was starting to get his strength back. “Good morning,” I said. Mutt looked up, said nothing, and kept picking at the ground with his pick. “You okay?” Mutt looked around as if I had spoken to someone else. I made eye contact and said it again. “You okay?” He nodded and dug the pick into some soft earth. I walked around the light, not casting a shadow on his work. “What’re you doing?” Mutt looked around, behind me, underneath the tip of his pick, and then fumbled with his hands,”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. “Life is a battle, but you can’t fight it with your fists.” She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest. “You got to fight it with your heart.” She pulled me back to her chest and sucked through her teeth like she was trying to pick the corn out with her tongue. “If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you’re fighting the wrong battle.” “Miss Ella, you don’t always make sense.” “In life,” she placed her finger on my knee, “you want the scabs here”—she placed the other on the cracked skin of my knuckle—“not here.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. “Life is a battle, but you can’t fight it with your fists.” She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest. “You got to fight it with your heart.” She pulled me back to her chest and sucked through her teeth like she was trying to pick the corn out with her tongue. “If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you’re fighting the wrong battle.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“understand this until you have a boy of your own, but listen close. The sins of the father are carried down to the son. There’s nothing you can do to stop what’s passed to you. You are going to wrestle with it until the day you die, whether you like it or not. The only choice is whether or not you pass them to your son. Stopping it is a choice you make.’ She closed”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you’re fighting the wrong battle.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain

“Many times in our lives, we act like He’s still dead. But several times today, we’ve testified that He’s not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He’s alive, act like it. He either is or He isn’t. You can’t be half-alive.”
― Charles Martin, Wrapped In Rain