Sheila Walsh > Quotes

“One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father. ...but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter.
It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful.
Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders.
It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed.
It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.”
― Sheila Walsh, Let Go: Live Free of the Burdens All Women Know

“Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”
― Sheila Walsh

“My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.”
― Sheila Walsh

“If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

“Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.”
― Sheila Walsh, Extraordinary Faith: God's Perfect Gift For Every Womans Heart

“What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are right now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. It's not easy to watch or personally experience a marriage on the verge of divorce, or a child battling cancer, or a betrayal of the worst kind, or dreams lost in the dust, or overwhelming feelings of despair or emptiness. But these things are real. And hurting believers whose lives are in tatters need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“You’re chosen by the One who will never unchoose you. You’re loved when the crowd cheers and when the lights go out and they all go home.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Longing in Me: How Everything You Crave Leads to the Heart of God

“While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we know is true no matter what we feel.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

“The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.”
― Sheila Walsh

“You are loved, you are beautiful, you are treasured, and you are a daughter of the living God.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

“A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit’s great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

“Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Shelter of God's Promises: Finding Comfort, Confidence, and Hope During Uncertain Times in God's Unfailing Promises

“...the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves...

...We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“I never knew You lived so close to the floor,
but every time I am bowed down,
crushed by this weight of grief,
I feel Your hand on my head,
Your breath on my cheek,
Your tears on my neck.
You never tell me to pull myself together,
to stem the flow of many years.
You simply stay by my side
for as long as it takes,
so close to the floor.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.”
― Sheila Walsh

“It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.”
― Sheila Walsh, Extraordinary Faith: God's Perfect Gift For Every Womans Heart

“Truth is always a turning point.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it’s true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Storm Inside: Trade the Chaos of How You Feel for the Truth of Who You Are

“When we don’t deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“David would enter the crucible of suffering where truly great servants of God are made. Perhaps you are there now. One of the most devastating realities of this kind of suffering is that often the one you thought would be your protector becomes the one who measures out the pain. All that longing for justice, for fairness, for having everything as it should be seems useless. As you think on the glory days of the past, your heart aches to turn back the clock, but you can’t. In these moments it’s tempting to believe that God has forgotten about us, or even worse, that He simply doesn’t care—His favor has moved on. If you are there right now, my heart aches for you. No one signs up for this school of suffering, and yet the deep work that God does in this painful, lonely place is rarely produced anywhere else.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Longing in Me: How Everything You Crave Leads to the Heart of God

“Perhaps, too, in the "shift-the-blame" society we live in, we have forgotten how to weep over our sins. David, the psalm writer, said, "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long" (Psalm 32:3). I wonder if so many of us rush off to self-help groups because we have lost the ability to be real in our churches.”
― Sheila Walsh, Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

“Be still, and know that I am God. I know I sometimes do. Countless times I’ve sat down to try to be still and holy. It’s never worked very well. Only recently when I was studying this passage did I realize my misunderstanding of the text: the original Hebrew root of Be still doesn’t mean “be quiet”; it means “let go.” That’s very different, don’t you think? Let go and know that I am God! Let go of trying to control your spouse! Let go of your worry about your finances! Let go of your unforgiveness! Let go of your past! Let go of what you can’t control—and rest in the knowledge that God is in control!”
― Sheila Walsh, 5 Minutes with Jesus: Quick Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

“But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.”
― Sheila Walsh

“Lambs that were to be used in the temple for sacrifice had to be kept ceremonially clean, unblemished, so they would be wrapped to protect them.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent

“Sometimes God will take you to a prison to set you free.”
― Sheila Walsh, 5 Minutes with Jesus: Quick Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

“O holy night, the stars are brightly shining; It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth! Long lay the world in sin and error pining, Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth. “O Holy Night”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent

“I am the bright morning star. Revelation 22:16 Star of wonder, star of light, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect Light. “We Three Kings of Orient Are”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent

“points ultimately to Christ, our Good Shepherd.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent

“messianic Jew, states that the Bethlehem shepherds whom the angel of the Lord appeared to were no ordinary shepherds.”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent

“Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).”
― Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent