Quotes from Susan May Warren

You got in over your head. That happens. You have to learn when to call for help. That's when you are strong.

You don't need to do anything to be loved by the right people.

The man was committing all sorts of crimes here. Thievery of her heart. Kidnapping of her common sense, and maybe even first-degree murder of her righteous anger.

When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.

Maybe if we saw love more in each other, it might be easier to look up and accept it from God." -Susan May Warren, Knox

God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

She couldn't move, couldn't breathe, with the sense of his gaze reaching in, taking ahold of the shaking inside. He'd always had that power—the crazy calm aura that seemed to suggest, given the chance, he could tame the world. Make the elements surrender, smooth out the rough edges of a mountain, and even teach the sky to call his name. Fearless. Confident.

God doesn't promise to keep the storm away, but He says He'll be with me through it. My faith won't protect me from the loss, but it will carry me and keep me from despair.~page 195

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

They want you to know they care. They heard about Kasha. Besides, this is the Minnesota way. We demonstrate affection through hot dish.

For a second she saw the brother she'd known better than herself. Proud, strong, faithful, determined, and yes, just reckless enough to save them all.

Love gives us power, makes us risk everything we have, everything we are. Love is not for the weak. It's for the strong.

Forgiveness is the currency of heaven.

When you show up with nothing and discover that you're loved because of who you are—that's when you realize what it means to be a son of God... It's pretty breathtaking...

We love, simply because we're loved. God's love comes first, and ours is just a response. We didn't trigger it - He did.

I'm saying that storms happen - cancer happens. Accidents happen. We can either run from them, hide from them, or....go through them. God is with us in all of those situations. But yeah, some of his best people are pressed out, shaken, fermented...aged through circumstances or time.

Jeremy had a mysterious, breath-taking allure about him, the feel of autumn, like riding down a leaf-strewn road, churning up the fragrance of tomorrow in her wake. Yes, Jeremy was a dangerous mix of something sweetly familiar and the enticing scent of change.

God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

Just make sure that you fight the battle God has given you, and not one of your own making.

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.

And I can also believe that God hasn't abandoned me just because my life blew up. Feelings aren't facts. The truth is that God loves me. And is up to something good in my life. Something you pointed out to me just a few weeks ago, bro.

God hasn't forgotten you. There's a plan. you just don't know it yet. But when you're ready to get back into the game, He'll tell you.