Quotes from Susan May Warren

Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.

Everyone, even within a family, is different. We all have different needs, different issues we struggle with. Part of being a family is learning to face those differences, forgive, and accept so that you can move on to love.

I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.

We look at our own problems, and we say... why? Maybe we should look at our blessings and ask the same thing.

The question isn't who causes something to happen, but rather, whether you see the outcome with His eyes or yours. Whether or not you trust He's got it all in His hands.

I don't think God is ever done speaking into our lives. Even when we don't want to hear it. Even when our hearts are cold.

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

I can suffer alone, or I can hold on to God in my pain. I can be meek and trust Him to make something good out of it. Only Jesus can heal the wounds, only Jesus can fill up those dark places with light, with understanding. Only He can quench our thirst for hope.

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.

It's an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on the outside of your body. You risk a little more each day as he wanders from your arms into the world.

But you don't have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.

Don't for a minute think that God has forgotten about you or doesn't have your back. And don't base God's love or desire to help you on your opinion of yourself. Base it on who God says He is.

God's love is not cautious, not wise, not sensible, and not remotely conservative. In fact, loving another person the way God loves them is the greatest adventure we can have.

I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause.

How about this—let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him.

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.

I think God's blessing might have everything to do with Him and His riches, and nothing to do with whether we deserve it.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

I think everyone who gets to have dreams should reach for them. I want to help you reach.

Because He knew that no matter what we did, we would always need Him.

some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible.

We expect God's love to be all nice and neatly packaged. But He'll do what He has to in order to draw us to that place where we need Him. Know Him. Are overwhelmed by His lover for us.