Quotes from Susan May Warren

Don't think for a minute 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.

You're just mad because God didn't answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.

But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. It forces us into God's arms, and that's where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

I know that God loves you. And that He's not interested in obeying your plans. He's interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand.

You have to believe that no matter what happens, you're going to be okay. That God's grace is enough.

Maybe that was the key-just because she'd made a mistake with her life didn't mean that God did, and it hopefully didn't change the way God saw her.

That's the Marshall men - they don't know the word for slow down, be careful, stop and think ... you know, prudence.

My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter

This was love. Love showed up. Love stayed. Love sacrificed.

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish.

God will show up even when we've made a mess of things. Even when it's out fault - He will show up because that's Who He is.

We are Marshalls. We are not alone.

Sometimes God gives us safe places to retreat so we can come back healed.

I will always come for you. No matter what. I. Choose. You.

The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.

I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

It's not about how you feel. It's about what you do.

Forgiveness has no limit. There's an endless supply.

Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.

Most of us don't have nightmares that come to life and try to kill us.

His life was totally out of control. And it had never felt so right.

Faith is what holds us together. It's our foundation when the world is shattering around us. It's the belief in a bigger picture. A bigger reason. It's the hope that we have when we realize we are not enough.