Susannah B. Lewis > Quotes

“Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Can't Make This Stuff Up!: Finding the Upside to Life's Downs

“nobody that’s tryin’ to tell everybody
’bout Somebody that can save anybody.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, How May I Offend You Today?: Rants and Revelations from a Not-So-Proper Southern Lady

“Jonathan yawned.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Ten Years Taken

“Hebrews 6:19 and read aloud, “‘We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton

“Whatever brings us closer to God, no matter how painful or debilitating, is worth it. Maybe that’s the silver lining in all of this. To bring you back to Him?”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton

“Life is like that sometimes, though isn't it? We can be consumed by many different emotions, and exhausted by them all.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Can't Make This Stuff Up: Finding the Upside to Life's Downs

“Jesus went through incredible pain. He hung on a cross. Battered. Beaten. Ridiculed. Mocked. He endured pain we cannot even comprehend. Yet the purpose of His suffering was realized on Sunday when the stone was rolled away to reveal an empty tomb. Rae, there is purpose in all of this. There’s purpose and perseverance in your pain, your grief and longing. Let Him take the burden from you and hang it on the cross. And let Him turn it into a thing of beauty. All you have to do is ask Him. And rest.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton

“You don’t just leave. You don’t act on emotion. Feelings are fickle and fleeting. Love isn’t a feeling, Carter. It’s an action. The Good Book says love isn’t self-seeking. It says love always perseveres. And I’ve never known the Good Book to be wrong, son.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton

“Stand firm and speak your stance (in love, always in love) when necessary. Welcome healthy debate and open-minded conversation but walk away, nobly, from heated argument.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, How May I Offend You Today?: Rants and Revelations from a Not-So-Proper Southern Lady

“He’s going to give you rest. That’s what He gives us when we are battered and drowning in more depression and despair than we can possibly bear. That’s what He gives us when we let go of the rope. He catches us and gives us rest—rest from the struggle and the hopelessness.”
― Susannah B. Lewis, Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton