Quotes from Susan May Warren

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

You're treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn't operate that way.

I know you feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

Maybe if we saw love more in each other, it might be easier to look up and accept it from God.

I'm safe, even if I'm a jerk." "I have friends who will hunt you down and kill you if I go missing.

It's never a bad thing to have only God to turn to.

Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their 'reputation' or shame won't let them pick up a non-fiction book. They can watch characters struggle, then experience the truth that sets them free.

But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins—my real sins—was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

You will never be enough, Ford. When you are weak, because of Him, you are strong.