Honestly Quotes

“As long as I viewed someone as the enemy, I gave that person some power over my life. But as I forgave a person, I too was free.”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man. and the limitless kindness of God. WILLIAM BARCLAY”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5).”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“O Love that will not let me go I rest my weary soul in thee I give thee back the life I owe that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. O Joy that seekest me through pain I cannot close my heart to thee I trace the rainbow through the rain and feel the promise is not vain that morn shall tearless be.”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“John Donne, the sixteenth-century poet, wrote these familiar but profound words: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly

“A softer call, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). A truer call, “What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).”
― Sheila Walsh, Honestly