Shannon

“With less and less time spent with God, eternity and the desire for it would lose their golden glow and melt down into just one earthly desire, back to the one thing I’d wanted for myself—I’d find myself wishing there was someone there to sit on the couch with me when I got home at night. No, my heart whispered. I don’t want to feel that way again. I felt God whisper back, It doesn’t have to be that way. I squeezed my eyes shut, grasping at those words, wanting to feel their truth all the way to the depths of my heart.”
― Grace Thornton, I Don't Wait Anymore: Letting Go of Expectations and Grasping God's Adventure for You

“IN THAT MOMENT I NEEDED A GOD I COULD TRUST WITH MY AGONY-RIDDEN, EMOTION-ETCHED HEART, NOT JUST WITH MY LIFE’S STRATEGY.”
― Grace Thornton, I Don't Wait Anymore: Letting Go of Expectations and Grasping God's Adventure for You

“You have a destiny. Do you know what it is? Are you willing to embrace it? Lay down your very life in its service? Or will you let your enemy hold you back with fears and illusions, keep you from trusting Him whom you should trust above all others? He knows exactly what He is doing in your life, and He has everything under control. You know that, but do you believe it? Will you go forward in the direction He has led you and rest in the knowledge that He'll see you through it? Or will you back away?”
― Karen Hancock, The Shadow Within

“sun-dappled hillside could provoke such powerful feelings? In this radiant paradise of a world I felt deeply the privation of years of wandering through life blind to the beauty around me.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Paradise War