Scarlet Hiltibidal > Quotes

“The gospel tells me I can’t fix myself.
The gospel tells me I can’t protect myself.
But the gospel tells me I can rest, knowing that Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue me and love me and cast out my fear. And He did and He does and He will.”
― Scarlet Hiltibidal, Afraid of All the Things: Tornadoes, Cancer, Adoption, and Other Stuff You Need the Gospel For

“My fears, my failures, my phases, real and imagined and everything in between, do not get to say who I am. They can’t. Because Jesus already did. He rose from the dead with new names for me. Forgiven. Approved. Loved. Daughter. Heir. Friend.”
― Scarlet Hiltibidal, Afraid of All the Things: Tornadoes, Cancer, Adoption, and Other Stuff You Need the Gospel For

“Isolation and “control” might produce quieter life. But, peace isn’t a quiet life, peace is a quiet soul. Peace is the gift of Jesus through the work of Jesus that we can have no matter what’s going on in our living rooms or our inboxes or our Facebook feeds. The loudest of lives can’t overwhelm the quiet that comes from Christ.”
― Scarlet Hiltibidal, Afraid of All the Things: Tornadoes, Cancer, Adoption, and Other Stuff You Need the Gospel For

“Embracing our weakness and living in full dependence of God's strength is life-changing. I'm learning that being weak and held feels even better than the illusion of "strong".”
― Scarlet Hiltibidal, Afraid of All the Things: Tornadoes, Cancer, Adoption, and Other Stuff You Need the Gospel For