Quotes from Anne Graham Lotz

I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me. PSALM 13:6

Come," [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. MATTHEW 14:29

Put the brakes on any runaway mental conversations you may be having with those who have wounded you.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. PSALM 32:8

Bitterness is like drinking poison hoping the other person gets sick.

pity parties never result in authentic benefit or blessing; they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. At the very least, these kinds of discussions with others will keep you focused on your hurts instead of focused on your Healer.

God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

Forgive, and you will be forgiven. LUKE 6:37

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.

Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father's Son, will be with us in truth and love. 2 JOHN 1:3

God has forgiven me. As an act of grateful worship, I choose to forgive others.10

Our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. 1 THESSALONIANS 1:5

Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder … to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, … these stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever. JOSHUA 4:5

Jesus' example teaches a powerful lesson. He demonstrates that one way to overcome emotional pain is to focus on the needs of others — to reach out and help someone else who may also be suffering.

Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. JOHN 4:14

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted. ISAIAH 6:1

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. JOHN 13:35

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. JOHN 8:36

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. "Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." MALACHI 3:10

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. EPHESIANS 1:13

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. MATTHEW 16:24

Wounding smashes relationships. We can never return to the way we were before the wounding took place, which in itself adds a dimension to our grief that is very deep. Yet it is possible for severed relationships to be reconciled.