Patsy Clairmont > Quotes

“Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.”
― Patsy Clairmont

“One of the things I love about God's Word is that it has no expiration date.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Kaleidoscope: Seeing God's Wit and Wisdom in a Whole New Light

“We are told repeatedly in Scripture to prepare for hardships; so why do we believe our lives should be characterized by ease?”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“[S]ometimes the fog that hides the future protects us from fretting over difficulties to come--difficulties that we're not ready to face.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“From my experience, loneliness isn't necessarily caused by a lack of people but is more an inner ache caused by a fractured soul. The question, Is this all there is? rumbles through the corridors of our minds.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“I guess that sometimes, even when we can see something is very wrong, it doesn't mean that God isn't at work executing a much greater plan.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“Hope doesn't announce that life is safe, therefore, we will be; instead, it whispers that Christ is our safety in the midst of harsh reality.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“I’m told that we addictive-type personalities want to cover our pain, so we use food, spending, sex, drugs, sleeping, gambling, alcohol, work, people, blame, social activities, the Internet, etc., to distance and disguise what we don’t know how to solve inside of us. The”
― Patsy Clairmont, You Are More Than You Know: Face Your Fears, Grow Stronger

“Normal is just a settng on your dryer”
― Patsy Clairmont

“Doing the right thing causes us to stand taller, dance more often, and step into life with more confidence.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“The Lord must have been delighted to call Peter out of his obvious weakness into God's stunning strength by giving him a new name, Rock, designating Peter as a steady place to stand.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Dancing Bones: Living Lively in the Valley

“There are still days I need a hand-up from another journeyer. And there are still days I want to hide, since every season of life brings its set of threats, yet because of God’s mercy and grace, I press on.”
― Patsy Clairmont, You Are More Than You Know: Face Your Fears, Grow Stronger

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Second That Emotion: Untangling Our Zany Feelings

“Change isn’t without cost, and maturity is deepened by hardships.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“I've lived long enough - Stonehenge and me - that I've learned even when folks do spiteful things, they have a reason. Often when I know the reason, their actions make sense. It doesn't make them right, but it does make sense; and when I understand, I tend to be less critical and more compassionate.”
― Patsy Clairmont, Catching Fireflies: Teaching Your Heart to See God's Light Everywhere

“I’ve given up on normal as a life goal, having realized that ‘normal’ is just a setting on one’s dryer.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“Let me just say, if you have a hole in your heart and you are seeking for other people to fill your neediness, it doesn’t work that way.”
― Patsy Clairmont, You Are More Than You Know: Face Your Fears, Grow Stronger

“It takes more than a casual curtsy or head-tip toward God’s sovereignty to let go; it will take a face on the floor, heart-cry of relinquishment before most of us tend to hand over our scepter.”
― Patsy Clairmont, You Are More Than You Know: Face Your Fears, Grow Stronger

“Have you noticed we tend to be “yes” people to our friends and “no” people to our children?”
― Patsy Clairmont, You Are More Than You Know: Face Your Fears, Grow Stronger

“Just as we throw out our garbage, we need to cast out thoughts that are trashy.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“For me, failure has been a strict teacher of God’s mercies, a curriculum I wouldn’t volunteer for,
yet a class I can’t afford to miss.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“God’s plans always flourish more beautifully than ours”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“Gratefully, I’ve lived long enough to know that if I can own my failures, others won’t struggle with them either.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“I realize that, here on earth, not everyone was meant to stay in our lives for extended lengths of time. I have to remind myself of that because basically I want everyone I care for to always be a part of my string of pearls. Some folks just breeze through; others settle in for a season and then move on; a few hunker down for the long haul. Those who settle in for a lifetime do so not necessarily because they are braver, more loving, or ever more loyal, but because they were meant to. It was part of the plan. So those who have left us must also be considered part of the ultimate plan.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“Sin embargo, aunque todos procedemos del mismo jardín, al parecer no olemos las mismas rosas-”
― Patsy Clairmont

“Hope restores confidence”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“God’s seeds of hope are often sown by people and books.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“I’ve watched the Lord press seeds into the sometimes resistant soil of my heart that I might grow out of myself and become more like Him. Sometimes he does the planting alone in the night, when it’s just Him and me. But usually God uses others to plant and water the hope that I can do exceedingly more through Christ than I ever dreamed.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“Sin embargo, aunque todos procedemos del mismo jardín, al parecer no olemos las mismas rosas”
― Patsy Clairmont

“I also made my bed every day, fixed my hair, applied my makeup, and washed the dishes. The result of being faithful in these small things was the restoration of my sense of worth and dignity. And proper placement restores order to one’s surroundings, which in turn restores order to some of the brain’s clutter.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God