Nancy N. Rue > Quotes

“Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you’re trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You’re so worth it”
― Nancy Rue, That Is SO Me: 365 Days of Devotions: Flip-Flops, Faith, and Friends

“Go straight to God, and dump it right at His feet. You go down with it if you have to. Then leave it there and go on and do what you know is right now. That other is done. It doesn't make you who you are. It just teaches you who to be.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Stones

“Good writing is where precision meets passion.”
― Nancy Rue

“Not everybody you disagree with is going to attack you for it.”
― Nancy Rue, Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble

“Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not as a casualty of poverty, not as a victim of a corrupt social structure. We can start by seeing both what is and what can be.”
― Nancy Rue, The Reluctant Prophet

“God knows suffering, not because he created it, but because He experiences it with us. ... It is also true that although God knows suffering, He doesn't explain it. I waited and searched and beat myself up for that, and I know now that it just flat-out doesn't happen. God only walks us through it and out into a place where we can once again be free. He does this not because we believe some rigid this or that about Him. He does it because He believes in us. He doesn't ask us to go out into the world telling people why they suffer. Even if we knew why, it wouldn't hurt any less. What we need to know is how to help each other live with it, and live well.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Waters

“God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.”
― Nancy Rue, New Girl in Town

“Just pray, Tristan,' I said. 'Pray that God will bridge the gap between what each of us has and what each of us needs to just be.”
― Nancy Rue, Tristan's Gap

“My hair is not the shiniest of bobs
My eyes are not the brightest in the room
My figure will not get me modeling jobs
My smile will not bring young boys to their doom.
But do I cry and mourn my average face?
Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?
Do I not sleep because I lose the race,
Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?
My mind is on a more important thing
That lifts my heart and makes my spirit soar
I want to make the souls of people sing
And quiet down the mean and bullying roar.
To help the wounded girls replace the scar
With the right to be exactly who they are.”
― Nancy Rue

“Keep saying "Dear God, dear God". There may still be suffering - but keep touching those people, Lucia, and He won't let you suffer alone.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Waters

“We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. "It's like we're praying," Celeste whispered. "Only we're not saying anything.”
― Nancy Rue, False Friends and True Strangers

“Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Sands

“I have discovered by way of a very circuitous route never to give advice, only to share what works best in my own life.”
― Nancy N. Rue, Pascal's Wager

“It's good when it gets messy,' Sully said. 'Hard, but good, because that's when the stuff we need to see comes to the surface. That's where God is.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Sands

“We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.”
― Nancy Rue

“Meanwhile, it’s who you are inside that counts anyway. If you have God-confidence, you’re going to look, act, and feel good about yourself because that’s just how God made you. Concentrate on God and who He wants you to be.”
― Nancy Rue, The Body Book

“Betty Big Boobs”
― Nancy Rue, The Body Book

“But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Sands

“have chemicals in my body?! Why? What are they doing in there?”
― Nancy Rue, The Body Book

“watching “I Love Lucy” reruns on TV Land–now there was a wacko, that Lucy woman–and”
― Nancy Rue, Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book

“So that's what we're about then," I said. "Staying safe in our gated-community faith, where we make room for God. Well, you know what? It's a fantasy and a lie.”
― Nancy Rue

“We give them the fire insurance salvation pitch, and they buy into it, and then we protect them in here so that none of us has to see what's going on outside the gates. We're in here worshipping a Jesus we've made up, while most of the souls out there, right out there, are crying out for a Jesus that really exists.”
― Nancy Rue

“Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique.”
― Nancy Rue, The Body Book

“I didn't blame Wes. I actually didn't blame anybody except myself. Really, what did I have in my life that was so bad it raced under my skin until I couldn't stand it anymore and I had to give it a place to come out? I didn't know. At moments like this, when my flesh cried out for relief, I didn't have to know. I just needed to make it stop. I lifted the pleated bed skirt and pulled out the wooden box. Inside, the instruments were lines up on a folded snowy white pillowcase, still sterile and gleaming from Eater night.”
― Nancy Rue, The Merciful Scar

“If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one?" I shook my head. "I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.”
― Nancy Rue, The Reluctant Prophet

“A sports bra is basically a tank top that comes just below your breasts and fits snug so your breasts stay in place and are pain-free when you’re on the go. Some girls feel so comfortable in sports bras that they wear them all the time. ZOOEY: When I do finally get a”
― Nancy Rue, The Body Book

“Ultimately, who we are can't be hidden. But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.”
― Nancy Rue, Healing Sands