A Time to Rise Quotes

“But rest assured I'll win. Because I'm going to kill you...
... with kindness.
And it's going to feel really weird for both of us.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Maybe that's what God means every time He tells us to rise up. To rise above the small things, the small struggles that chip away our identity and leave us lost.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“it's always time to live.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Then verses float into my mind. Verses about rising for God's glory. Verses about loving my enemies. Verses about soft answers turning away wrath and kindness heaping coals on the head of an attacker.

Heaping coals sounds good.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“A whisper loud enough to rise above the world's roar. That is my God. Working through us flawed, impulsive humans.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Give me back my eggs”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“I've come so far with Him... and yet I still remain so far from what I could be.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Amazing that, amidst such beauty, He would decide to even look at me, let alone call me to join Him in a quest for shalom. This journey will not fail. It cannot fail when He is the leader.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Because someday, Parvin Blackwater, I want you to marry me.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“You're Missing a hand."
And you're missing a brain!”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“God will never instruct me to be afraid, so I might as well get used to reminding myself to fear not.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“But labels, names, or skin colour don't matter ... we're children of Christ.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“I know men tend to be injury-prone—they’re explorers, after all—but Reid never seemed to get hurt this often. Solomon will have quite the scar collection.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“RISE UP.
Hmm?
BE MY LIGHT.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“It's good to dream”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“I'm Parvin Blackwater and I'm very much alive!”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Let me just say, you have way better taste in men than your mom did.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“If I knew finding a place to stay would be as simple as cracking my head open, I would have crashed to the ice much earlier. ~ Solomon”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“I think it was warmer in Antarctica.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Numbers, letters, lines ... math. That's worse than fish.
No notes. No explanation, just math scribbles.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“I'm not telling you my reasoning behind everything, Skelley. Even you know that'd be foolish of me.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“Well, what's your middle name then? I'll call you by that.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise

“It takes another decision- a daily decision- to rise above this moment. For shalom. For my God.”
― Nadine Brandes, A Time to Rise