Victoria Lynn > Quotes

“Her words echoed in his head and a faint hope kindled and grew into a timid blaze. Whosoever. Anyone can be forgiven by God.”
― Victoria Lynn, London in the Dark

“Don't be an Island Cy. When you push us away, the only person you hurt is yourself.”
― Victoria Lynn, London in the Dark

“You are a woman who has shown me what it means to be called by destiny at the hand of God and walk in it.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Somehow, she trusted. With all that was going wrong, she still had the faith to stay strong. She caught Levi’s eye, and the pain in her gaze was tempered with a hope so bright it filled his heart with its light.”
― Victoria Lynn, Bound: Two Broken Souls. One Journey

“God made you to be the way you are, you needn't try to be anything different than that.”
― Victoria Lynn, When Beauty Blooms

“There is good left in this world, Violet. We can’t expect Him to destroy every last inch of it just to rescue us. This isn’t the first time in history that His people have been cut down and destroyed. Remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? They were thrown into a fiery furnace. He rescued them. Will He not do the same for us?”
The mention of fire made her wince. “The furnace feels mighty hot right now.” […]
“But He’s right here with us in the fire. Don’t you see Him?”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“I only did what anyone ought to do.”
“But no one would.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Doing the right thing did not always mean it was done without fear.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“We need to trust that everything will be all right.” The strength in Miz Mariah’s voice caught Levi’s attention. She was staring at the wall with courage in her eyes. “He hasn’t let us down. God is still with us and He loves us, even if things don’t go the way we think is best. We have to trust that God has a plan. And we can’t let fear get in our way.”
― Victoria Lynn, Bound: Two Broken Souls. One Journey

“Time would tell how much he would remember, if anything at all. She hoped to high heaven that it was the latter.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Your life has value. No matter how hard and worthless it may seem. Your worth stretches far beyond anything you could possibly see and into eternity. Do not forget it.”
― Victoria Lynn, This Life of Mine

“Death had a habit of being permanent.”
― Victoria Lynn, Bound: Two Broken Souls. One Journey

“Their faces blurred in his sight. Combining, and then morphing back into individuals. Swirling, spinning,
dancing the night away.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Lord, it hurts.” She whimpered softly. “When will it end?”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“[O]ffering a prayer was never an idle gesture.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“He wished he knew what on earth to do with himself.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“She remembered her father's tears, her mother’s cold, white hand, and the perfect, tiny, porcelain face of her still-born baby brother.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Traveling the roads alone was a temptation for evil”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Dirt under her fingernails, the gentle breeze in her hair, and the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves like a soft hand stroking the fabric of the earth soothed her senses; it all culminated into one of the most comforting feelings in the world.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“The voices of others had tugged at his mind, offered him many things that in the moment had been his deepest desires. He had been in pursuit of his pleasures, but they had never filled the aching holes within him. The places that had desperately cried out for a loving father, a caring mother, and the wise counsel that he so desperately needed. The heart that longed to be accepted, even in the midst of heartache.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“My forgiveness has covered you. My calling has marked you. My heart is strong within you. Fight now beside Me to master yourself and the voices that lie to you. Step forth into the destiny you were born into and the provision you will bring to this nation.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“[S]he knew that no matter how vile the person, she could not refuse the common decency of saving their life and caring for their wounds. It was what her Savior would have done, and after all He had offered her, how could she refuse to live in a manner worthy of that sacrifice?”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“The work had been petty, small for a man like him, tasks that most grown men would disdain to touch, but he did it with a willing heart...”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“Her head had taken to constantly pounding, and despite the massive amount of work to be done, all she felt like doing was curling up on her little mat by the fire and falling asleep for enough hours to bring
her back to her normal, cheerful, rested self. But every time her head hit the pillow, no sleep came for the worrying. No matter how hard she tried, she always tossed and turned, nervous, anxious, and overwhelmed at the possibilities of the dangers that presented themselves at every corner.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“It was cold and dark. The ocean tossed its waves with loud crashes upon the beach and the cliffside on the west side of the city, the roaring of the water a protest against the tyranny and oppression that weighted down the very air in this place.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“She stood there, brokenness swirling around the empty kitchen lit from the warm light of candles and the fire burning in the hearth. But this time the pain was healing. A release. Another surrender. A heart yearning.

Yearning for hope.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“The softness and tenderness that rested on his face and in the wrinkles around his dark eyes were different enough, but it was the flame from within that he shared with Marcus, Fendrel, and Keitha. The spark of a life not their own, something of another Kingdom shining from a depth she couldn’t fathom. It was as if a part of their soul was tied elsewhere, and it shone forth on their countenance.”
― Victoria Lynn, This Life of Mine

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“He stepped closer. Reaching out a hand now, bridging the gap through the hole in the walls of her heart, the stone she had let fall, allowing him to see through the barricade and giving him a glimpse of the fragile garden behind it.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“But even farther into the vision he saw a little boy, the gold circlet on his forehead, his brown locks flowing around it and his amber eyes wide, large in his small face and full of tears and longing. Devoid of a mother and nearly without a father. A heart broken beneath the weight of his loneliness. Like a sapling bent underneath the weight of its leaves, having grown too fast for its roots to hold, he toppled over and fell from the calling and destiny that had been on his life.”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew