Top 25 Sarah Sundin Quotes
#1. God isn't like a candy machine. We can't insert a good deed and receive a blessing. Then we'd be in charge, not him.
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#2. The shame of her youth screamed at her from every brick, but Jesus silenced it. She had dreaded this moment for weeks, but God was so powerful. In the very place of her worst sin and deepest pain his peace billowed through her soul.
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#3. Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.
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#4. Boston Navy Yard; Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, March 18, 1941 On
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#5. Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
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#6. She kissed him back, opening every cavern of her heart for him to explore, to own, to love.
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#7. Jesus didn't take away her tears, he received them. He didn't take away the memories, he shared them. He didn't take away the hurts, he felt them. Somehow, with the Lord, she could bear it.
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#10. Silver had its own worth, its own beauty, a quieter beauty, a beauty that reflected rather than called attention to itself. There was nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with her. Someday, a man would come along who preferred silver.
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#12. So this was friendship - the pain of ripping open one's heart rewarded with intimacy and understanding.
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#13. I thought it would fix everything, but it just made everything worse. Lies do. Remember when I told you white lies were like ball bearings in the machinery of society? Wrong. Lies are like incendiary bombs, burning and melting and mangling everything- trust, hopes, everyone you love.
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#14. Sometimes the Lord wants us to fight, but sometimes he wants us to surrender. Surrender can require a lot more courage than fighting.
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#15. All he wanted was to show her she was worthy of a long journey, worthy of an apology, worthy of love. She didn't have to accept any of it, but she needed to know.
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#16. She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.
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#17. The women's gazes skewered him from opposite ends, making him feel like corn on the cob, sweating over the grill.
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#18. Forgiveness doesn't require approval," she said. "God never approves of sin, but he still forgives us.
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#19. When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
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#20. of course you understand why he can't forgive you because you can't forgive yourself. You don't even believe God forgave you...if you did you'd shove off that shame. Jesus forgave you. Why can't you? Why can't Jack?
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#22. Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?
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#23. Oh Lord, that's it, isn't it? That's trust. I have to trust you even if he rapes me. You'll be with me. You'll help me through somehow.
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#24. Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.
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#25. He raged and questioned and mourned. Eventually he found peace - not peace like some still pond, but peace like a river, jostling over rocks, hurtling over falls, whirling in eddies. Authentic, rugged peace.
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