Quotes from Susan May Warren

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.

When you get on your sled, and yell hike, what happens?" "The dogs start to run?" "They explode with so much power, you just have to hold on. Love is like that. You don't have to create it, you just have to open your heart to it and then let it pour out.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

When the death of the man who taught them how to jump, along with a raging wildfire in the mountains of Montana, brings them together to train up a new team of jumpers, Kate and Jed have no idea the love they've been running from is about to ignite.

She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.

love doesn't come from us - it's born in us, a birthright from God. We can't manufacture it, we can only release what He's given us. That nudge to forgive? I told you— I think that's love trying to break free.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

Maybe that's why her flat in New York City had never felt like home. Because deep down, Vivien longed to be somewhere where people knew her. Somewhere she belonged.

The difference is Gabe lets God fight his battles. He lets God work in people's lives, and he lets them be human. Trusting God protects him, gives him the courage to risk opening his heart and let out love. He knows he is safely in God's shelter. He won't crumble if your father, or even you, let him down. God will hold him up.