Fighting Forward Quotes

“Sometimes you pray, and sometimes you are the answered prayer.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“A life well lived is just a collection of small gestures and people you love the best you can and stories we tell back to one another when the moment has passed.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“Because here's the thing about God and pain: He never plans to leave you just as you are. You're far too precious to him to not upgrade you, to swap parts of you for a new model. When you know stories about the dark, you become a light to others. You get to show the way. You get to sit on the floor with people or on the other end of the phone, not saying a word because you know words can't change the present pain. You get to help others just be, as you decide to just be with them.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“We get very little control, but I am adamant in believing there are two things we do get to control, how we show up and how we finish.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“I could either survive by the scraps of validation from fragile humans or feed at the table of God and stay full.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“You only really know the true power of light when you place it in the darkness.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“But what if God is revealing the most he's ever revealed to you in the midst of this place, and you just haven't looked up yet? What if this isn't solitary confinement and instead it's training?”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“Yet sometimes victory is sitting still when your heart is broken and you cannot find the words, trusting that God knows how to fight for you in realms you cannot see with your own two eyes!”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“When your fight song runs out, God will take over.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“God is not a runner. Abandonment is not a word in his vocabulary.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“I think we would rather skip the parts of our story where God feels absent or where or bodies are riddled with illness or where our brains don't feel like our own, but I think God uses the winters and the dark nights to do something he cannot do when everything is good and fine and beautiful. He has our attention, He's on the move.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“And I keep going, knowing that my God is a fighter, and freedom will not be a footnote in my story.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“Just because God gave you a revelation doesn't mean you've walked through the transformation.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“God is kind. He isn't standing in the center of your issues with his arms crossed and a look of disdain on his face. He does not shame us, and so if you ever feel the shame seeing into the corners of your heart, you need to know that isn't Him.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back

“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety; the opposite of addiction is connection.”
― Hannah Brencher, Fighting Forward: Your Nitty-Gritty Guide to Beating the Lies That Hold You Back