Kimberla Lawson Roby > Quotes

“Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in whatever it is you are trying to accomplish…believe in that order.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby

“Thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, The Best of Everything

“Are you living the life God has designed for you, or are you living someone else’s?”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“Matthew 9:22 (NLT): “Jesus turned around, and when he saw her he said, ‘Daughter, be encouraged!”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, The Woman God Created You to Be: Finding Success Through Faith---Spiritually, Personally, and Professionally

“but what Serena hadn’t been able to deal with was the pathetic way Diane had always bragged about everything. From having the better father to receiving all”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“about how much she wanted to be married: all three of them thought her standards were set way too high and that, on far too many occasions, she had overlooked some of the kindest, caring, and most respectable men around. Men who had been very interested in Serena, yet Serena had still either turned them down the very”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“Because, Mom, I’m really proud of you for finally standing up for yourself and ending things with Daddy.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“And the even bigger truth? She could tell he didn’t earn at least a six-figure salary.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“about his belief in God and the fact that he seemed to have a huge amount of respect for her and her decision to remain celibate.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier than she’d ever been in her life.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“which the other children at school had ridiculed Serena about daily. Of course, this latter part hadn’t been something Diane could relate to because unlike Serena’s deadbeat father, whom Serena still had never met, Diane’s father had taken her school shopping at the start of every school year. He’d gifted her with some of the”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“When you have sex with someone, you willingly give them a part of your soul that you can never get back. So why not wait for the one”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“There are so many times when many of us have found ourselves living a tremendous lie when we could be living a tremendous life.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“It was because she still hadn’t found her soul mate—if there was such a thing—and the fact that she had just learned three days ago that her so-called significant other, Tim, was sleeping with another woman.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“but this time around, she had tried to be more trusting. She’d told herself that being paranoid, skeptical, and insecure wasn’t good, and that maybe Tim really did love her as much as he said he did. She had also decided that he didn’t seem like the kind of man who would be unfaithful, not with his regularly talking”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“her with a whole lot more than that, and the beautiful son or daughter they would have would experience a much better childhood than she had—a son or daughter Serena would need to have very soon, because her biological clock was now ticking pretty loudly.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“When you have sex with someone, you willingly give them a part of your soul that you can never get back.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“So why not wait for the one man who genuinely loves you and who wants to spend the rest of his life with you?”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“her unfortunate and unfair childhood, she hadn’t. And as much as she hated to admit it, deep down, she still resented her sister for having a much better father than she’d had—a father who had loved and adored her, spent time with her one to two weekends every month, and who had willingly made his child support payments on”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“the beautiful clothing to all the summer vacations her father took her on annually, Diane had bragged, bragged, and bragged some more, and Serena had never truly gotten over it or forgiven her sister.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“best clothing money could buy, and then he would give Diane even more clothing at Christmastime. And if that hadn’t already been enough, he also made sure to buy Diane a whole new summer wardrobe at the end of every school year.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“Not to mention the fact that the name of the plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning company he worked for had been stitched on the upper left-hand side of it. His working attire had told Serena everything she’d needed to know, and since she had hired that very company in the past for some of”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“was because she still hadn’t found her soul mate—if there was such a thing—and the fact that she had just learned three days ago that her so-called significant other, Tim, was sleeping with another woman.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“she wondered what was wrong with her and why after all these years of dating—one man after another—she hadn’t so much as been engaged before. In fact, no one had ever even asked for her hand in marriage—that is, unless you counted that time when one of her former high school classmates had seen her dining at a restaurant…and out of nowhere…declared how much he had secretly always loved her, how he had never stopped loving her, and that if she would have him, he would marry her anytime she wanted.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“morning, great is thy faithfulness”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“get in touch with him at all. But then, like clockwork, he would finally call her back the next morning, waking her up and apologizing for dropping off to sleep a lot earlier than usual or for not seeing that she had called him until that very moment.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“as Serena thought back on their overall relationship, she couldn’t deny how obsessive and protective he had been when it came to his smartphone.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever

“Because she didn’t want any of them to know just how unhappy she was being single. Especially since Serena knew a good number of women who preferred being single and that many of them were happily living their lives to the fullest.”
― Kimberla Lawson Roby, Sister Friends Forever