Quotes from Lisa Wingate

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

Where there is injustice, one must stand against it. Where there is suffering, one must be the hands and feet of our Lord. Where there is opportunity for good, one must seize it. As go our words, so must our acts.

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.

May turns to me with purpose, stretches intimately close as if she plans to impart a secret. "A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her OWN music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you're ready to walk it, but because He knows that's the way you need to go.

most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning.

We all make trade-offs to get what we want. But no matter what you stand to gain, when the thing you're asked to trade is yourself, the price is too high." What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut.