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“We can’t separate our home life from our Christian life without missing something that is critical to our fellowship with God and our usefulness to His mission in the world.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“There is a time when it’s necessary to lean in, to say the hard things, to not be silent when one of our sisters is teetering toward compromise. This is how we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (v. 2). This is how we live out the beauty of the gospel—together.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“you are loved—deeply loved, with the steadfast love of the Lord, a love that never fails. Perhaps you long to be held by someone who truly cares for you and is committed to your well-being. The everlasting arms of God are supporting and surrounding you, carrying and caring for you. Do you long for a friend who knows and desires you? In Christ, you have the dearest Friend a soul could have, one who walks with you today and will be yours for all of eternity.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“He is working behind the scenes, making arrangements, putting everything in place. And in time, He will be the means of upending our enemy’s objectives and fulfilling God’s holy purpose for our lives.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“events on this earth are never determined by chance. As the nineteenth-century hymn writer Maltbie Babcock put it: This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.3”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“now that I am married, I know that Christ—not my husband, precious as he is—is my highest good, my unfailing hope, and that I can trust Him with whatever this chapter of my life may hold.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Our unleashed words can be every bit as damaging and destructive as any other kind of aggressive outburst.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it.4”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

“Panic is only for people who don’t know that Heaven rules.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Heaven Rules: Take courage. Take comfort. Our God is in control.

“Perhaps from where you sit today, you can see only miscellaneous, frayed, disconnected strands that make no sense at all, no matter how hard you try to figure it all out. All you can see is injustice and pain.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“the face of the utterly unanticipated upheaval in her own plans, Mary worshiped. She exalted the character of God.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“but we really do care about your story. And even more, we believe that God cares about it—about the story He’s in the process of shaping through your life.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“So it is with God’s Story. The Bible has a beginning, a middle, and an end. This story line makes sense of our world and explains how we fit into God’s eternal plan. It gives us a context, a grid through which to process hard things that come into our lives.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“When God puts us in the furnace, He always keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Distressing as they were, the calamities experienced by Ruth and Naomi were not ultimate. At times these grieving women must have felt that their story was over. But their losses actually set the stage and provided a platform for God to continue writing His Story of redemption, as He does in all our losses and sorrows.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“You do not have a story until something goes wrong.” Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Steven James’s pithy advice for would-be writers also applies to the story God is writing in our lives. As James puts it: At its heart, a story is about a person dealing with tension, and tension is created by unfulfilled desire. Without forces of antagonism, without setbacks, without a crisis event that initiates the action, you have no story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“no matter how desperate the circumstances seem, God is writing His Story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“season of prolonged singleness, as it was in mine: God is good, and You can trust Him to write your story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Of course, no amount of effort, prayer, or faith can guarantee that a marriage will be miraculously restored.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“the place in the story where the conflict comes to a head and something is decided.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“the plot thickens.” A struggle of some sort is introduced to the narrative.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“The late missionary, author, and speaker Elisabeth Elliot once described suffering as “having what you don’t want or wanting what you don’t have.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“For sure, it’s more art than science. But behind the beauty and drama of a compelling tale are some essential ingredients. Like unseen two-by-fours inside a wall, they’re what make the story stand straight and true.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“In the meantime we walk by faith, trusting His presence and grace to sustain us each day in the here and now, and assured that in the end He will right all wrongs and vindicate those who are His own.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Now we need an event, a circumstance, a challenge, or a tragedy that sets the characters in motion.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“we want the outcome—sparkling, precious gems—without the process.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival

“This book is about trusting God to write your story. But as we’ve said, this is really about God’s Story. His ways. His watchful care over His creation. His Providence.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“We tend to think that David has gone from the land of the living to the land of the dead; but the truth is that he has gone from the land of the dying to the land of the living.” Do you believe that? If you do, the death of a believer takes on a whole different perspective.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“you are a follower of Jesus, every day of your life—whether you feel like it or not—is weighted with kingdom purpose, eternal significance, and a royal destiny filled with joy and contentment.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence