Top 100 Lisa Wingate Quotes
#1. I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think
the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually ... Remember that.
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#2. Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the
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#3. Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.
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#4. feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But
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#5. Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.
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#6. Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.
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#7. The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips
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#8. If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.
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#9. The future is a blank page, but not a mystery.
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#10. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.
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#11. Things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and that's not the kind of heart I want to have.
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#12. The depth of my love for him, of my need for him poured over me, both painful and sweet, both comforting and frightening. If anything happened to him, I didn't know how I would keep going.
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#13. Decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge of the universe.
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#14. To love and be loved is the very thing our souls scream for from birth and every moment after, the urge to need and be needed as natural as breathing, as life-giving as breath.
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#15. Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,
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#16. In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.
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#17. The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd
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#18. There will always be those memories that tie us together, those invisible strings. The careless stitches of mother and daughter. Suddenly
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#19. Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.
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#20. A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.
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#21. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.
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#22. I don't want someone who's just with me until things get a little too difficult, or something better comes along, or marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be. I want the real thing-for better or worse, rich, poor, sickness, health, forever and ever, amen.
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#23. The trick," she says, "is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a beginning, not an ending." "I know." I try to shift her off the subject.
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#24. The beginning of a journey is always uncertainty, but with uncertainty comes hope.
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#25. Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.
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#26. We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside, she say.
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#27. I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.
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#28. Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.
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#29. There is so much good. So much grace. So much pouring into the river. A quiet water, this river of grace. Its work done in ways that do not seek attention. Yet it is there. Always there. A
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#30. The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.
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#31. Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.
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#32. I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and all the ways we love. They are the reason we know how to love at all.
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#33. After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it?
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#34. Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.
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#35. All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh
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#36. I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time - something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.
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#37. Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's. Hannah
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#38. Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.
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#39. I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn't see anything but mountains ahead, that where there's a mountain, there's always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.
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#40. The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it, providing an avenue for the light.
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#41. Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.
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#42. Life is a process of storms and rebuilding, of fires and regrowth, of loss and gain.
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#43. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.
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#44. Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.
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#45. All the best things in life start with a risk.
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#46. The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'
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#47. The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
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#48. no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The
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#49. Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.
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#50. If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.
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#51. Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
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#52. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.
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#53. Other people's judgment doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't. Zoey
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#54. Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.
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#55. Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.
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#56. You let a possibility into your mind, you let it into your life.
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#57. Some things just are, because they are. Because God made them that way.
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#58. Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.
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#59. When I'm with him, I feel like a completely different person. I like the way this person feels. And then I wonder - is this the person I really am?
How can you know for certain what parts of yourself are authentic and what parts you've invented to make life bearable?
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#60. Sisters are created not by blood but by love.
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#61. Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.
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#62. Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.
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#63. I decipher the brewing machine because I am, after all, trained to save lives, and this is a life-or-death situation. We need coffee. Now. Or heads will roll.
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#64. I desire to live my life this way, ... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence.
Help me find the way.
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#65. One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations. My father did that for me, and no amount of effort on my part can fully repay the debt. I'd do anything for him, and for my mother. Now
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#66. I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother - a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the one thing that matters. That makes everything else matter. That makes everything worthwhile.
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#67. My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.
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#68. That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.
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#69. You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.
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#70. Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.
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#71. Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.
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#72. Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.
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#73. She bear-hugged me in a way that performed some sort of chiropractic miracle, because when she set me down, the tightness in my back was gone and I was an inch taller.
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#74. The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.
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#76. It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I
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#77. My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.
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#78. But sometimes it's the things that require a leap of faith that we need to believe in most of all.
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#79. George Vida braced his hands on the table before taking his seat, his gaze strafing the room with the discernment of a leathery old goat sniffing for something to nibble on.
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#80. We cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.
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#81. There was no other place I loved so well as this one."
"Me as well,"... For all the places I've loved, there have been none like this. This place is a deeper love, a sisterhood of water and sand and soul. A place where you fill me through my eyes and my ears, Father.
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#82. Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.
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#83. I realize it's not the best timing-it's only been a month, but life isn't about waiting for perfect timing. If you're not careful, life happens while your stuck in a holding pattern
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#84. My life was like that box. The best things in all the imperfections.
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#85. You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.
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#86. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
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#87. The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.
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#88. Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you're ready to walk it, but because He knows that's the way you need to go.
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#89. No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can't. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.
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#90. Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn't have to work itself out today.
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#91. We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us. Beloved.
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#92. A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I
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#93. Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure, patience, warmth, and time.
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#94. The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.
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#95. Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.
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#96. You're going to have to face this. You can't let other people decide your life for you ... Other people's judgement doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't.
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#97. We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.
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#98. Oh shoot, Imagene, you shouldn't have told them that. Big mouth. "I mean, not that the hotel's not open for business now, because it is. Sure enough. You're both here." I flashed a big toothy grin, but only Carter smiled back. The
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#99. Even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.
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#100. you can't impact something you don't touch.
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