Quotes from Lisa Wingate

It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

Listen, the road seems to admonish. Listen. I have stories. I close my eyes, and I hear voices. Thousands whispering all at once. I can't make out any single one, but I know they're here. What do they have to say?

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

You see, there is one thing I learned from following in Papa Sevier's footsteps as I grew up. Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today,

Every bird in the air came from a thought of God, and so did I.

You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.

At the very least, we must tell our stories, mustn't we? Speak the names? You know, there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our