Girls' Club Quotes

“When I look into her searching blue eyes, I am filled with wonder and an urgent sense of desire. I want to be a better woman, to walk this path of life well beside her, to point her towards God’s fingerprints and kindness, to live a full, abundant life so that she, too, can know that she is free to live into hers.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“In our hurry-up, multiple-option, online society, we can always leave someone or something we find difficult—a person, a place, a church, a friendship. There is always another option. But real community, long-term friendship, and marriage are precious gifts only to be kept by a commitment to remain in the circle of love they create.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“We are not computers; we cannot download information about God or life by direct transfer. Life is beautiful and barren and impossibly complex. Books and conferences help us think about our lives, but most of life is not thinking about life—it’s living through”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“Understanding that influence is best cultivated through love and friendship, I sought to deepen my sympathy for what was going on in their hearts, to understand their personalities, to affirm their intrinsic worth to me and to God and to others, and to encourage them on a daily basis.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“When it was time to make breakfast, I moved into my Martha mode. I got irritated that I was the only one working while everyone else stumbled slowly into the kitchen. Before I knew it, I’d had a small explosion. I threw a wet blanket over the moods of everyone, and my good intentions were spoiled by my failure to control my spirit.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“You are capable of more than you know. You are the right one to handle your life. And what is more, you are never alone in the journey. You have your Girls’ Club around you, and more fundamentally than that, you have God. I think you have it in you to go a little bit farther.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

“We are hungry for the sustenance of sturdy, deep friendships, but we are fed an idea of friendship that is neither nourishing nor satisfying. Friendship can and must be so much more.”
― Sally Clarkson, Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World