Quotes Tagged "relationships"

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us. —Brighton Hayes

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

A queer spirituality allows for loving pandemonium--the challenge of shifts and transitions, the realization that we are shaped by each other, and the emergence of new identities, new creations within each relationship.

Emotional hurts are like cancers of the soul. If we don’t get them out, they can poison the whole soul and body.

Satan wants to use sharks to move you from your purpose. Don’t let him!

People may betray you, but you don’t need to take it personally.

If you let sharks call the shots, control, and manipulate you, it will lead you down a road of burnout, hopelessness, and even depression.

You were never created to please people; you were created to please God.

We may not be able to make people’s decisions, but we can choose to forgive and be made whole in Him.

You are not someone’s answer. You are an example of what the answer can do in someone’s life, and you are compelled to share how you did it by God’s Word and His grace, but only their yielding in obedience to God is their answer.

You can never do for someone what they are not willing to do for themselves.

We must be compassionate but not enable people to blame or shame us out of God’s blessings.

We don’t need to be fearful of sharks, but we do need to have an awareness of them.

Be bold! Be courageous! God’s grace is backing you!

God has called us to love people, to be an example, and to be kind, but we have to take courage and be wise because there are sharks out there.

If you allow sharks to dictate your decisions, they will try to exert their will on you more and more.

Why do we try to look for sharks? Why do we try to please the sharks that hurt us, hold us back, and keep us from our destinies?

We must have heart and overcome if we are to thrive in life and not merely survive.