Let's All Be Brave Quotes

“I believe in the me God made and in the me God can make. I believe he made me on purpose and didn’t make any mistakes when it came to my creation. I believe he is doing a good work in me, and in you. And that though I am flawed, God is loving me and refining me and reminding me that God in me is where I can place my trust. And that is the place where I find my courage.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“be brave enough to love the people around you, even if it looks like sacrifice and feels like loss.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Believe in yourself,” this is what I want you to think about. Don’t believe in yourself in such a way that you think you can accomplish anything on your own. You can’t. To believe in yourself means to believe that God made you and there is no one like you, that you have a unique call to courage, and that you can do the thing that is staring you in the face.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Courage doesnt tell you to let go when you know what to grab next. Brave people let go when its time to let go.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won’t be perfect. It won’t be easy. But it will be your story and your best story.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“God is perfect (we are not). He sees the big picture (we do not). He knows everything (we do not). So I choose to believe in this — that I am who I am on purpose, that the One who made me has a purpose and has unconditional love for me and those in my life.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“And to say gracious words is brave. To speak life into someone else takes courage. Whether you are correcting in love, standing up for the voiceless, praying for the sick, or praising and loving others, your words are changing the atmosphere.

Don't be afraid. Be brave. Say the things that will speak truth and heal. Hold your tongue in anger or fear—those are the times when a coward speaks. But when the moment comes to say the gracious thing that will mark a heart forever?

Say it.

Speak love, and watch as beautiful things come to life.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“if you will go where you’ve never gone before, you will see God like you’ve never seen him before.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Be brave for yourself, be brave for your God, and be brave for the onlookers, the ones who will be inspired by you to inspire others.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“It seems that Jesus did that for us over and over again. He said yes to uncomfortable things — like being friends with tax collectors and eating in their homes. Like letting a “woman . . . who lived a sinful life” (Luke 7:37) break a bottle of expensive perfume over his feet in an act of love and gratitude. Like considering Judas one of his best friends, even when he knew, he knew, Judas would be the one to turn on him.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I never felt brave. I never had a moment of extreme courage or belief that this was going to be the best decision I had ever made. I just did the next thing.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“He knows we need dreams in pieces because we would be too scared of the whole puzzle.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Look for the light. The light at your feet. And follow it. An when you know its right to hold on, hold on. Grip tightly until your hands are sore. But dont let go.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“You are stronger than you know. You are more generous than you've allowed yourself to be. You are impacting the people around you for more than you realize. Will you now also be brave?”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Practice makes perfect" is true. "Practice makes confidence" is truer.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“You want to change the world? Be brave. Don't try to be someone else or do someone else's brave thing. Don't move to Africa because it is brave. Move because it sounds like the most terrifyingly perfect next step for you. Don't write a song because it takes courage. Write it because you'll puke if you don't—even if you puke when you do. Because it matters. Every moment matters. And you being you? That is brave. It will make me brave. We will all be brave.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I think it's really nice when other people remind you that you are loved.

It makes you brave.

When you know who loves you, you know your safe places. You know where you can rest. You know where you can go when you fail. (I'm sorry if I'm the first to tell you this, but brave or not, you are going to fail.) Knowing who loves you also lets you know who you can trust with your brave ideas and who will hold you accountable to being brave but not being foolish (if you let them.)”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I think that's what I need most to be brave—a place where I belong.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“You are one of a kind, made on purpose, deeply loved, and called to be courageous.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“If we want to see God glorified all over the world, we need to be brave enough to see courage in all its different forms.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“But I'm not that girl anymore. I'm not the happy-on-the-outside-insecure-for-days-on-the-inside girl. The lies are gone (for the most part), and instead I see the truth of how God made me and who he made me to be. I don't fear failure because it doesn't define me. Neither do my successes. I used to want to hind in the moments that asked me to be brave.

Now I want to take a penalty kick.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“You want to change the world? Be brave. Be you.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I don’t know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don’t know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn’t have an expiration date. Courage doesn’t have a marker that says, “You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“We have to say yes. Even when it’s scary or costly or unknown. We don’t screw up by saying yes to the wrong things; we screw up by letting all the floats in the parade pass us by and never jumping on one of them for a ride to the end.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Our words always matter.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“Bravery and belonging go hand in hand.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“I’m a Georgia girl at heart. I slept in a University of Georgia T-shirt for more nights in middle school than I care to admit. I’ve been cheering for the Atlanta Braves since Dale Murphy wore the uniform in the 80s. My parents still live in the same house they built in 1980 on the property my grandparents have occupied since the 1950s. I grew up in Marietta, a cute little Southern town where the same guy has done my parents’ dry cleaning for thirty years and the waitresses from Po Folks Restaurant came to my grandmother’s funeral. You know, Mayberry kind of stuff, but with more cliques and monogrammed purses and high school football games.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have

“But what the ant knew is that your muscles don’t always determine what you can do.”
― Annie F. Downs, Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have