Sarah Hanks > Quotes

“We must never run from the light. Truth is worth the cost.”
― Sarah Hanks, Every Voice Heard: Three Novellas About Church Hurt and Abuse

“Her body told a different story.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“It’s admirable. But this isn’t a job interview, sweetheart. I asked who you are. You are not what you do.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“Lord, why did You keep me here? What is the point of having this life that I can't participate in? I'm a mere spectator while the world spins around me. Why didn't You take me home? I'm so tired. I want to be with You. Just let me be with You.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“I am loved. Here in my brokenness. Here in the hurt and the not quite and the not yet. I"ve fallen short of who I've wished I could be, who I thought I should be, in a thousand ways, yet none of that matters here with Him. I am fully and completely loved just as I am, without ever having to change.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“What is it that I’m facing? What shape or form will it take? How do I fight it, and what will it cost me? It’s a dark, foreboding presence hovering over me, and I’m without defenses.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“Lord, I still love You. I just don’t know how to trust You anymore”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“He has so many thoughts about who He created you to be, so many words to tell you about your identity. The only one who can tell you who you are is the person who created you. I figure, best go straight to the source.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“Her mother was like a gentle breeze, soothing all the places her father chafed.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“The fern looks to be dead, as near as me. Plumb dead and shriveled up like there’s not a hope in the world. But somehow, some way, the rain will come, and it’ll spring to life again.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Song

“Sometimes, progress looks like taking something down or moving it around. You are allowed to change your mind. You’re allowed to readjust your vision.”
― Sarah Hanks, A Battle Worth Fighting

“What if a good God had good things in store for her despite all the way’s she’d failed?”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Pain is pain. Hurt hurts. It won’t hurt you any less by claiming you have more of it.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Song

“There is a grand purpose to my life. In truth, history will have a different narrative because of my prayers.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Song

“But God, I'm scared. You know me. You know I'm not brave.
His answer came so clearly to her heart, it was almost as if she heard it aloud. That's okay. I am. Hold My hand. We'll do this together.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“She needed a transformation. She couldn’t change herself. God was going to have to do something inside of her.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Technically, I don’t think Jesus has opinions. Whatever He thinks is true, so He only has facts.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Surely, she wasn’t the only person who shirked prayer when she wasn’t positive she’d like God’s answer.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“She needed him, the gentle man with soft edges, more than she needed air not tinged with sulfur. If she couldn’t find him among the sea of South Carolinian soldiers, perhaps she could find him here. Within herself.”
― Sarah Hanks, A Battle Worth Fighting

“It’s so much easier to hate people from a distance, much harder when you get close enough to see your own reflection in their eyes.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Legacy

“Someday, I'll give it to Jordan, only when I do, I'll tell her the story that goes with it. How long ago this woman with a tree name saw a cardinal and went from knowing about God to knowing Him intimately. I'll add my story too, how in the darkest season of my life, the Lord used a cardinal to show me I wasn't alone.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“What level of crisis is this? Chocolate, Cheetos, or wine?”
― Sarah Hanks, A Battle Worth Fighting

“We all fight for freedom in our own ways.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Sometimes you just need a little more time to gain a different perspective.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Strange Waters

“Perhaps just when she thought he (god) was silent, he proved otherwise. she only had to be still enough to listen”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Fiery Waters: A Time Travel Adventure

“I don't know how people do this parenting thing without Jesus. I have to rely on him for everything. Everything.”
― Sarah Hanks, Braving Fiery Waters

“He’s working on us all, meeting each one exactly where we are at and walking us into freedom.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

“You, a small-town girl from coastal South Carolina, came all the way to Utah to eat octopus? You could throw a rock out of our bedroom window and hit an octopus on the head.”
― Sarah Hanks, A Battle Worth Fighting

“We got to worship Him through the pain. But you know that by now, don’t you? That we can’t try to skirt around all that hurt. We gotta walk straight into it and feel it all so God can heal it all.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Legacy

“Sore spots, they show us just where we need healing, my dear.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy Will Follow Me