Bethany Haley Williams > Quotes

“In our American quest for comfort, our resilience muscle has been weekend. In our desire to have things "quick and easy," we have atrophied our ability to thrive and survive. So we now have quick, and we now have easy, but we have less strength to cope with life when it become difficult.”
― Bethany Haley Williams, The Color of Grace: How One Woman's Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War

“We Westerners define happiness as achieving or gaining what we want. In our definition, we’re happy when life is smooth, when we are on top of our game, when our marriages are fulfilling, and when we are reaching our goals. But the more we have, the more we want, and we begin to ride the deadly wave of hyperconsumerism. We fill our insecurities from the outside in, rather than the inside out. Christians are not exempt. I have done the drive-by to the mall on the way home to get a new “something” to make me feel like “someone,” forgetting that I was actually someone the whole time.”
― Bethany Haley Williams, The Color of Grace: How One Woman's Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War

“In our American quest for comfort, our resilience muscle has been weakened. In our desire to have things "quick and easy," we have atrophied our ability to thrive and survive. So we now have quick, and we now have easy, but we have less strength to cope with life when it become difficult.”
― Bethany Haley Williams, The Color of Grace: How One Woman's Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War

“This is the gift of suffering. We can be broken but not desperate. And we can be desperate but not broken. When we allow ourselves to be desperate for God out of our brokenness, we find true surrender in him.”
― Bethany Haley Williams, The Color of Grace: How One Woman's Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War