The Mended Heart Quotes

“More importantly, I didn’t know then that one day I would genuinely be free. That freedom came out of a thousand small steps of obedience, most of which I took during the waiting or limbo time. The more I learned to lean into Him on a daily basis and simply live out my faith in the everyday elements, the more I was prepared for the bigger steps when they arrived. Not only that, I was given the gift of living my life fully in the present, rather than being fixated and frustrated over some distant time or hope. In the crossroads called limbo, you do arrive at mile markers. You become more mature. More healed. Less surprised by or resistant to or unprepared for the good things God is giving you in the ordinary. Your challenge is to begin to embrace the waiting times as part of the overall journey. Limbo is a key part of the healing process! As you are faithful daily, He is working in you powerfully, and it all counts. Every single moment!”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Focus on giants—you stumble. Focus on God—your giants tumble. MAX LUCADO, CAST OF CHARACTERS”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“God and His plan for you do not change in the crossroads.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Margaret Thatcher once said, “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny!”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Our heart mends as our inner self—the central or innermost part of our identity—is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“MENDED HEART CHALLENGE • Consider how much thought and energy you devote on a daily basis to thinking about people who have caused you pain. • Prayerfully ask God to help you shift that focus. • Praise God that He willingly took sin (even the effects of others’ sins) from you.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“stop expending great amounts of energy and your heart on things you cannot change, so that you can put that same energy into those things that you can.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Renewal in your thinking leads you to a place of maturity where you consider how your thoughts influence you.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“You are beautiful, not because of what you have to give, but because of who you are.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“You are not alone. You don’t have to earn God’s love. You don’t have to run anymore.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“When you are in pursuit of a mended heart, the Holy Spirit will gently peel away one layer of brokenness at a time. It’s a merciful and exquisite process that gradually reveals the healed and whole person you are meant to be.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“In Him we live (exist). In Him we breathe (take in life). In Him we have our being (our identity). The more we live in Him—not just going to church, but uniting with God in all aspects of life—the more we start to accept and look for the reality of His presence in the everyday. We see it in us. We see it in the way we interact with others. It is part of the way we think, and it guides the choices we make.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Guarding your heart is no different from buckling a beautiful child into an infant seat, or placing a seatbelt across your own chest before pulling out of your driveway.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Happiness comes not by passive waiting, but by active participation.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Nothing can separate us from God’s love.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“incurable. She’s damaged goods.” But it saddens me more when I hear a similar statement come from the lips of a woman treasured by God who thinks she is somehow beyond His touch. When Jesus stood outside the door of the dead little girl’s home and told the crowd to stop mourning, their response was to laugh. They knew dead when they saw it. But Jesus saw what they could not. Dead”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Nothing here on earth is guaranteed,” Melissa says, “except for one thing: Jesus is with us always. When I began to understand who He is, my doubts began to disappear. He is sufficient; He’s enough.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Truth is our first and greatest weapon against spiritual abuse.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“A foundation of healing is built on the promise that God will be your strength. He is in the midst of this healing process with you—right where you are.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Focus on giants—you stumble. Focus on God—your giants tumble.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“PRAYER Dear Jesus, I open every door to the place where people have hurt me. Shine Your Light and let Your work begin. Today I will shift my focus to You rather than dwelling on people or the past. Thank You for filling my gaps to overflowing with You.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“It’s a reminder that it’s not my offerings that delight God, but my joyful acceptance of His love that brings Him pleasure (see Hos. 6:6).”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“He steered their worried thoughts away from what they couldn’t do or hadn’t done and toward Himself, offering peace in exchange for their anxiety. I got you, buddy. I got you.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“Lord Jesus! I can’t pursue You more than I do right now with three little kids and this wretched disease! I pray. I read. I journal. I spend time with You. But when I get up from this place, my life seems no different. I still battle the same fears and insecurities. What am I missing, Lord? Where’s the victory?” I waited. Then He spoke to me: I get that you love Me. But you don’t seem to understand that I love you. So from now on—until I tell you differently—every time you’re about to say, “I love You, Lord,” I want you to turn it around and say, “You love me, Lord.” Say it now. Shocked and surprised by this revelation, I whispered under my breath, “You love me, Lord.” He whispered to me again, Say it again. “You love me, Lord.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“A foundation of healing is built on the promise that God will be your strength. He is in the midst of this healing process with you—right where you are. With all your baggage. With your broken heart. With your messy emotions. With your faith and love for Him, in spite of the pain that just won’t go away. All that is required of you is to accept what He so willingly offers.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“When you have experienced brokenness, you may feel that you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Perhaps that sense of lostness has sent you down paths you regret. It may have caused you to lie awake at night while frenzied thoughts raced through your mind. You can rest now. Let Jesus take you by the hand. You can get off that wandering side road you took in search of something or someone who could possibly make you feel less pain. You can slow down the activity that tells the world you’ve got it all together, though your heart hurts so much that you can’t sleep at night.”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places

“In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart, reminds”
― Suzanne Eller, The Mended Heart: God's Healing for Your Broken Places