Quotes from Liz Curtis Higgs

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.

What we call miraculous, God calls business as usual.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

God particularly favors older women as channels of divine grace.

While we're obsessed with here and now, God is focused on forever.

For no word from God will ever fail." Luke 1:37

God, and she was changed. As commentator Matthew Henry eloquently described this scene, "Those who, through grace, are brought to experience the delights of communion with God will say that the one-half was not told them of the pleasures of Wisdom's ways."26