Dawn Haynes > Quotes

“Peacekeeping is a fine vocation," Emmett said gently. "As long as the peace you're keeping is real. But there's a difference between peace and silence. Peace is what happens when truth and love are both present. Silence is what happens when you sacrifice one for the other." He paused. "You've been sacrificing truth for the appearance of love, son. That's not peace. That's just quiet.”
― Dawn Haynes, Where the Tide Returns: A Christian Beach Romance

“think the book’s about how children look straight at the things adults have decided not to look at.”
― Dawn Haynes, Fourth and Long : A Christian Football Romance

“27. The thirteenth verse. The goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
― Dawn Haynes, Fourth and Long : A Christian Football Romance

“Died still holding the promise. That's what's got me this morning.”
― Dawn Haynes, The Curveball: A Small-Town Christian Sports Romance

“Whether doing the right thing by yourself is the same as fixing the thing.”
― Dawn Haynes, Fourth and Long : A Christian Football Romance

“And he especially loves a quiet family. Because silence looks like peace, and peace looks like godliness, and before you know it, you've built a whole life around the idea that keeping things smooth is the same as keeping things right. It isn't. Smooth water isn't always clean water. Sometimes it's just still because nothing alive is moving”
― Dawn Haynes, Where the Tide Returns: A Christian Beach Romance

“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
― Dawn Haynes, The Curveball: A Small-Town Christian Sports Romance