Hallie Lord > Quotes

“Help me to love them better and more. Fill in the cracks that formed when I failed to be careful enough with them. Let their innocent minds remember the happy times more often than they remember the sad. Fill them with your love and grace.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“I’m starting to think insane people are God’s favorite kind of people.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“[...]completed to-do lists and sparkling, lemon-scented floors are wonderful when they appear [...], but that the most important thing of all is that my home to be a place of love.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“When God created each of us, he tucked a little bit of his divine imagination into our souls. He did this, I think, so that we can conceive of the fact that our world contains so much more than we can see, feel, and touch.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“Love creates life-affirming beauty, fear sets out to destroy it. Love is joyful, fear miserable. Love frees, fear imprisons. Love is kind, fear cruel. Love is honest, fear deceitful. Love is brave, fear afraid. And love is strong, while fear is weak.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“[…] God gives grace for the situation, not the imagination.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“Just because he calls us to something in one breath does not mean that he might not call us to something else in the next. Life is a constant process of discernment with a multitude of twists and turns in the road.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“We are all constantly being refined by fire and smoothed over by grace.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“I think one of the things that has always stopped me from truly leaning into my fears is that I'm not always sure whether my dreams line up well with God's plan for my life. I might be willing to take a leap of faith if I was sure that God wanted me to leap.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“Enjoy your life just as it is today.”
― Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace

“This is what places and the people we meet in those places are meant to do. Even the most transitory. They are meant to descend on us and shape us and help us evolve. To leave indelible marks of color and insight and newly discovered loves and passions all over our souls.”
― Hallie Lord, Falling Home: Creating a Life That Catches You When You Fall