Connilyn Cossette > Quotes

“Yahweh is the creator of all that there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts will stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Counted with the Stars

“Someone once told me that Yahweh would make himself known to me, if I searched. And he did. Perhaps he will make himself known to you.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind

“There is no army, no fortress, no giant that can stand against our God. No one. I have seen with my own eyes. I have walked through the bottom of the sea. On dry ground. I have watched as he humiliated Egypt and brought the mighty Pharaoh low.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind

“There is no army, no fortress, no giant that can stand against our God. No one. I have seen his might with my own eyes.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that one can either endure hardship or thrive within it.”
― Connilyn Cossette, A Light on the Hill

“You can tuck your head under your wing for a while...and wait out this storm. But you will fly again.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“She gently placed her palm on my wounded shoulder and the warmth of her hand did nearly as much to soothe the ache as did the ointment. If only she would continue touching me, allow us to forge something new together from the broken pieces of our past. Her willing presence in my life would be far more healing than any balm”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“The consequences of our foolish decisions are always made clearer when we look backward on the path we've traveled.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Like Flames in the Night

“But still she fled, leaving me battered and bleeding among the remnants of my brother's life, each of her parting footfalls another blow to the dream I'd not deserved, but had foolishly dared to hope for.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“I know you love him, and that your heart is just as burdened as ours over his brokenness. But you are not his God, Eliora. You cannot save him from himself. That task is Yahweh’s alone.”
― Connilyn Cossette, To Dwell Among Cedars

“You'll never discover what blessings are in store for you if you don't stop hiding here, licking your wounds.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“There will be times when there is nothing you can do but survive, to place one foot after the other into the driving rain.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“Our family was built atop the ruins of tragedy, Rivkah, each brick fashioned from mercy. You will find no stones in their palms.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“The broken pieces will make this vessel even better.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“Why had I ever felt the need to strive for worthiness when my abba's love was so plainly unconditional and boundless?”
― Connilyn Cossette, Like Flames in the Night

“She tipped her head back and laughed with gusto, the sound so full and lovely that my own amusement crashed to a halt and I could do nothing but stare. The notes of her laughter twirled through the air like butterflies alight on the breeze.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“Here, on my knees, I could see far more clearly than I ever had before.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Splendor of the Land

“believe that Yahweh did not just speak creation into existence. I believe he sang it into existence. Sometimes when I am alone, playing the lyre and singing, I feel as though he is singing with me. I am working together with the One who made the stars to create something new.” “That”
― Connilyn Cossette, Counted with the Stars

“The mountains will fall to dust before I will ever give up on my daughter.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“…but one chance moment beneath a flowering terebinth two years ago had changed everything, transforming Rivkah from the girl I’d teased to exasperation into one whose beauty enthralled me nearly as much as her intelligence and spirit”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“She was a meek servant during the day, all subservient and silent feet, and a stern-faced warrior facing off with me and stealing my bed at night.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Like Flames in the Night

“The dance of ink over finely woven plant fibers became an act of worship, a connection to the Creator of language himself, especially when the words of a new song spilled from my heart onto a sheet of papyrus.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“Our people, our land, and our entire way of life was at stake, and if I had to give my own life for this mission, I would.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Like Flames in the Night

“The Arameans can try to blow out a few flames — and they may succeed for a time — but there is no stamping out a raging wildfire.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Like Flames in the Night

“He calls you by name, even if you have not yet learned to distinguish the sound.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shelter of the Most High

“Sex slavery in all forms is an assault on human life.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind

“The hair I'd yanked too many times to count shone in the sunlight, trailing down her back like liquid obsidian.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“...and each life is precious. As I have learned.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Wings of the Wind

“Smile. You look as though you are headed to your execution, not your betrothal." Are they not one and the same?”
― Connilyn Cossette, Until the Mountains Fall

“Just how many nameless, faceless friends had I been protected by without knowing it?”
― Connilyn Cossette, Between the Wild Branches