All That Really Matters Quotes

“It matters because you matter to Him.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“You don't honor God with your life by changing your personality and tossing out everything that is unique about who you are. You honor Him by offering those very gifts back to Him.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I'm listening now, God.' Now that I have nothing left to give and nothing left to offer anyone.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Love lives in the hard places with us because that’s what sets it apart. That’s what makes it love.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“we first have to understand just how deeply we are already loved that way—by God. Then we can love each other out of the response to His love for us.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I love you,' I said, studying the extravagance and depth of her eyes. 'Even the crazy, impulsive parts of you that I don't always understand. Because those are the parts that have challenged me. That have changed me.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“For the first time in my adult life, I want to give my heart to something that really matters -- something bigger than what I could have ever seen for myself or for my future.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“And I'm realizing more and more just how much I've neglected the most vital parts of who I am, of who I'm meant to be. When I'm focused inward, I miss out on divine opportunities to bless others -- to serve, to help, to protect, to befriend. To love beyond my own capacity and capability.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“In the nine years I'd worked with kids who'd come from hard places, I'd learned a few things about grace - and it was a lot easier to hand out when I didn't hold it with a clenched fist.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“When you feel good in your own skin, it's easy to help someone else feel good in theirs.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I imagine standing beside you as a partner. I imagine supporting you as a friend. I imagine encouraging you as a confidant. And I imagine loving you in all the ways a devoted husband would adore his wife.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Losing a part of who you've been will take time to work through. And that doesn't make you selfish or shallow or wrong. It makes you human. It makes you real”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“But more often than not, the best rescue plan we can offer someone we care abour is our support for each step they take forward”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I suppose that's something we all want in life, no matter how old we get, to find that special place where we fit.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“And I certainly couldn’t manufacture whatever feeling I was experiencing now as Silas’s gaze shone with the kind of admiration I’d been searching for my whole life long.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“But in my experience”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I wasn’t sure what was happening in my heart”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I think we first have to understand just how deeply we are already loved that way—by God. Then we can love each other out of the response to His love for us.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“I’m not asking because I have the answers. I don’t. Not even close. I’m asking because I’m learning this”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.’” And though I’d read that verse dozens of times”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“What if everything I’d built had been for this? For this moment right here? To use my years of networking and beauty product testing to help a group of people in need. The hope set a fire deep in my chest.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Hey”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“You’re gifted,” he said. “It’s easy to understand what your Mimi saw in you all those years ago. What she said about God having uniquely shaped gifts for each one of His uniquely shaped people. She was right about you.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“However”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“God has uniquely shaped gifts for every one of His uniquely shaped people.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Because as much as I craved his respect and approval . . . those weren’t the only things I desired from a man like Silas. A man I could so easily care for”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“But more often than not”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Yet I knew from experience that serving others was a sure-fire way to shift an off-kilter focus to a new perspective.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Silas carried himself the way royalty did: with a posture of unmistakable authority and confidence.”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters

“Haven’t you ever had that feeling when you first meet someone and everything just clicks? It’s almost like you were supposed to know them. Like knowing them is part of some bigger”
― Nicole Deese, All That Really Matters