Sarah Sundin Quotes

All he wanted was to show her she was worthy of a long journey, worthy of an apology, worthy of love. She didn't have to accept any of it, but she needed to know. ~ Sarah Sundin

When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him. ~ Sarah Sundin

So this was friendship - the pain of ripping open one's heart rewarded with intimacy and understanding. ~ Sarah Sundin

Forgiveness doesn't require approval," she said. "God never approves of sin, but he still forgives us. ~ Sarah Sundin

God isn't like a candy machine. We can't insert a good deed and receive a blessing. Then we'd be in charge, not him. ~ Sarah Sundin

More importantly, he hoped she'd see the Lord in a new light. If he could help reunite those two ... well, that would be even better than winning her heart. ~ Sarah Sundin

Boston Navy Yard; Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, March 18, 1941 On ~ Sarah Sundin

He raged and questioned and mourned. Eventually he found peace - not peace like some still pond, but peace like a river, jostling over rocks, hurtling over falls, whirling in eddies. Authentic, rugged peace. ~ Sarah Sundin

Jesus didn't take away her tears, he received them. He didn't take away the memories, he shared them. He didn't take away the hurts, he felt them. Somehow, with the Lord, she could bear it. ~ Sarah Sundin

They deserve our prayers, not our gossip. ~ Sarah Sundin

She'd assumed God made them to spite her, but Wyatt said it with warmth, as if God made them because He liked freckles, because He specifically liked them on her. ~ Sarah Sundin

A surge of rightness and determination rushed into his chest. If he showed Mary his interest, told her how he felt, maybe her heart would bend to him. Even if it didn't, even if he made a complete fool of himself and lost his friendship with her, it was the true thing to do. True to his heart, true to where God seemed to be leading him. ~ Sarah Sundin

And you did see me.' She opened the door wide. 'I'm sorry you didn't like what you saw. ~ Sarah Sundin

Oh Lord, that's it, isn't it? That's trust. I have to trust you even if he rapes me. You'll be with me. You'll help me through somehow. ~ Sarah Sundin

She kissed him back, opening every cavern of her heart for him to explore, to own, to love. ~ Sarah Sundin

Oh, what one kiss could do. ~ Sarah Sundin

Sometimes the Lord wants us to fight, but sometimes he wants us to surrender. Surrender can require a lot more courage than fighting. ~ Sarah Sundin

of course you understand why he can't forgive you because you can't forgive yourself. You don't even believe God forgave you...if you did you'd shove off that shame. Jesus forgave you. Why can't you? Why can't Jack? ~ Sarah Sundin

I don't know.' Wyatt frowned at the painting overhead with its patch of golden daffodils. 'That's truthful too. Those up there - light and joy and life. These down here - darkness and ruin and death. One isn't truer than another. Just different aspects of truth. ~ Sarah Sundin

Only then did she realize no one was chanting or laughing or staring at her anymore. How strange that she'd dissipated the attention by accepting it and stepping into the limelight for one blissful moment. ~ Sarah Sundin

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Silver had its own worth, its own beauty, a quieter beauty, a beauty that reflected rather than called attention to itself. There was nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with her. Someday, a man would come along who preferred silver. ~ Sarah Sundin

Lord, no more,' he whispered. 'I won't do it anymore. What I did that night was wrong, but living in shame is wrong too. You never excused my actions, but you forgave me. And I - I forgive me too. ~ Sarah Sundin

I thought it would fix everything, but it just made everything worse. Lies do. Remember when I told you white lies were like ball bearings in the machinery of society? Wrong. Lies are like incendiary bombs, burning and melting and mangling everything- trust, hopes, everyone you love. ~ Sarah Sundin

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister. ~ Sarah Sundin

I think God would say he believes in libraries. Think about how the Lord loves words. He spoke the universe into being, and He gave us His word both in written form and living form. Since the Lord knows everything, I reckon that makes Him the ultimate library. ~ Sarah Sundin

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat. ~ Sarah Sundin

Do you see? Isn't it incredible?' Wyatt's voice shook with excitement. 'No matter what - when life feels as light as the morning or as dark as the depths of the sea, He's there. His hand leads us and holds us.'

The words prickled and poked and rearranged things inside her, a most unsettling feeling, but it didn't unsettle Wyatt. It energized him. ~ Sarah Sundin

Ah, you can't think when you're in love. ~ Sarah Sundin

But the Bible said, "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear," and Mary would rest in that. If she loved Jim--and she was pretty sure she did--then fear had no place. Her fear would only burden him and paralyze her. The Lord loved Jim and would keep him safe, even if safety lay in heaven rather than on earth. ~ Sarah Sundin

Jealousy destroyed all it touched, and Ray refused to indulge ~ Sarah Sundin

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. ~ Sarah Parcak

There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate. ~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Months of crawling out of that abyss he'd shoved her into. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. ~ Sarah Addison Allen

The magic in my blood prickles at the strangeness, but I have no time to think of things beyond this world. ~ Sarah Henning

Aren't cops trained to be patient, to use their weapons as a last resort?"
"But this was a white cop, Sarah. And to a white cop, a black man and a gun don't mix. Do you understand where I'm coming from? ~ Mark M. Bello

There's no way in hell I'm getting out of this bed and going for a run, he murmured onto her head. She chuckled quietly. His hands grazed lower, down her back, not even stumbling over the scar tissue. He'd kissed every scar on her back, on her entire body, last night. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Unconditional love is something people achieve once they've given themselves over completely to someone. Once they've decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them. ~ Sarah Noffke

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. ~ Sarah Zettel

Elain had always been gentle and sweet - and I had considered it a different sort of strength. A better strength. To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to love, to be kind. She had been always so full of light. Perhaps ~ Sarah J. Maas

I spent five years learning the language of his eyes. ~ Sarah Harian

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett

Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

You dare glamour me? he growled, his violet eyes burning as they bore into my own. Lucien just pressed me harder into the wall. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Both the Queen and Prince Albert seemed to have spent far more time with their children, than one usually associates with Victorian life. They ate together, and walked, rode, played and painted together. And the fond parents were often present at bath time and in the nurseries that Prince Albert had designed close at hand. ~ Sarah Ferguson Duchess Of York

You look absolutely delicious today, Feyre?! ~ Sarah J. Maas

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that. ~ Sarah Dessen

You can control your power in human form--keep it dormant. But the moment you switch, the moment you get agitated or angry or afraid, the moment you remember how much your power scares you, your magic rises up to protect you. It doesn't understand that YOU are the source of those feelings, not some external threat. When there IS an outside threat, when you forget to fear your power long enough, you have control. ~ Sarah J. Maas

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. ~ Sarah Caldwell

You do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help. ~ Sarah Vowell

Will you be ashamed of me if I admit that I'm not sure I'm ready for that sort of battling?'
He took my face in his hands, kissing me once. 'Never. I can never be ashamed of you. Certainly not over this...If you eevr wish to fight by my side, it will be my honor.'
'I feel like a coward now.'
'No one would ever think that of you--not with all you have done, Feyre.' A pause. 'War is ugly, and messy, and unforgiving. The soldiers doing the fighting are only a fraction of it. Don't underestimate how far it goes for them to see you here-- to see you tending to the wounded and participating in these meetings and councils. ~ Sarah J. Maas

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed. ~ Sarah Vowell

I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something. ~ Sarah Paulson

Inside her head, Frankie had the map to my entire life, and I to hers. I hated that my feelings for Matt were uncharted and unmapped like a secret buried treasure. ~ Sarah Ockler

Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again.
She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison,' he said softly. 'It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.' He brushed away the tear that slipped down her cheek.
'I wanted to heal you,' she breathed.
'You did,' he said, smiling. 'Yrene, in every way that truly matters . . . You did.'
Chaol wiped away the other tears that fell, brushing a kiss to her hot cheek. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species. ~ Sarah Beth Durst

He took a hold of her hand and brought it to his chest. "Do you feel that?"
"Your heart?" At his nod, she replied, "Yes."
"It's beating just for you. From the first moment I saw you, it was yours. And, until my last breath on this Earth, it will belong to you." He brought his hand to her chest and placed it over her heart. "Now, I need to know if yours belongs to me. Not a part, but the whole thing. A person can't live with half a heart. I need your whole heart to survive. ~ Sarah Curtis

Keeping everything very cool and professional, I see, Cadet," remarked Commander Woodsinger as he went by. Elliot did not know why the two most important women in his life had to be deadpan snarkers. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about. ~ Rachel Maddow

It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating. ~ Sarah Moss

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. ~ Sarah Polley

Why did you even try? Do you think you actually mean something to it?"
"I don't know," Alan snapped. "How could I know? That's not the point. He means something to me. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin. ~ Sarah Kane

Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand ~ Sarah McCoy

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too. ~ Nicolle Wallace

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun. ~ Sarah Waters

We know violence isn't the answer. When we take up our arms, we're talking about our vote. ~ Sarah

Finally he asks, "What if that's not enough? What if I need something else?"
And she replies, "Whatever you need, I will find a way to get it to you. I will give you the moon, and more. ~ Sarah Dessen