Quotes from Susan May Warren

The Ones who love you always come back

Who said marriage and intimacy—the way God wants them to be, a depiction of His intimate love for us—would be easy? Marriage is not a conditional act. It's loving no matter what. It's how we're supposed to be with God—trusting Him with all our fragile parts.

You have to learn to live life in the middle of the danger. And trust that there's a bigger plan.

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

God knows how tough it is to forgive, especially when someone has done you wrong. But He does expect you to do it. And He expects you to be patient and trust Him to work in others' lives. Psalm 37. It's one of my favorites, especially when I know God wants me to do something impossible, like forgive.

She needs you to be bigger than her fears. Stronger than her rejection. And yes, if you truly believe that she doesn't want you in her life, then you have to let her go, But a woman who opens her heart up wants to know she will be protected.

True Love--unconditional love--declares you worthy just because it chooses you. (pg 150)

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.

God wants to break through the identities we've constructed for ourselves, the fears we have of discovery, to say, "I see you. I know you. I know everything about you, and yet I love you. Period. You don't have to fear the truth with Me because I already know it. I know exactly who you are, and I still died to save you.

She knew right then...she too knew real love. that kid of love that forgave again and kept showing up, loving her when she didn't have the courage to love back. Love pursued. Love forgave. Love believed. Love sacrificed.~ Jess (pg 287)

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

Don't for one minute think that God has forgotten 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.

That's what love does right? Shows up and sticks around, even for the hard stuff. Keeps its promises~ Sam to Pete (pg 322)

Stop looking at what you can't do and look ahead, to your safe landing. Visualize it.

Fear had its own power, and the more I did nothing, the greater my fear would grow. But I had to remember two things. First, if I wanted to be free, then I had to stop being a victim and fight back with everything inside me. And second, that God never intended me to fight my battles alone.~ Ned (pg 216)

That we shouldn't base God's desire to help us on our opinions of ourselves. Otherwise we'd always be in over our heads. We need to start believing that he wants to help us. Even when we make mistakes.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally.

When you get on your sled, and yell hike, what happens?" "The dogs start to run?" "They explode with so much power, you just have to hold on. Love is like that. You don't have to create it, you just have to open your heart to it and then let it pour out.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

When the death of the man who taught them how to jump, along with a raging wildfire in the mountains of Montana, brings them together to train up a new team of jumpers, Kate and Jed have no idea the love they've been running from is about to ignite.