Blackstock Quotes

#1. Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

Kelly Clarkson

#2. Ben's chances in the campaign.

Terri Blackstock

#3. Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Marcel Proust

#4. I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.

Terri Blackstock

#5. time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Terri Blackstock

#6. One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Terri Blackstock

#7. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Terri Blackstock

#8. What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too?
Can't. I'm Jewish.
You are not Jewish! You're Italian.
I was thinking of converting.

Terri Blackstock

#9. She had always asked him what, exactly, he was training for.
Now she knew.

Terri Blackstock

#10. In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Terri Blackstock

#11. This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.

Terri Blackstock

#12. So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#13. Instead of worrying, we need to be seeking His kingdom and His righteousness.

Terri Blackstock

#14. I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.

Terri Blackstock

#15. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Terri Blackstock

#16. Being from a Christian family doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage -

Terri Blackstock

#17. Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.

Chip St. Clair

#18. There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

Terri Blackstock

#19. There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Terri Blackstock

#20. Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

Terri Blackstock

#21. So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

Terri Blackstock

#22. Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down.

Terri Blackstock

#24. The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

Abbas Kiarostami

#25. Every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.

Terri Blackstock

#26. I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Terri Blackstock

#27. No, no, not at all. I'm a professional. If I can't take criticism, how will I ever grow?

Terri Blackstock

#28. But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge.

Terri Blackstock

#29. I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

Jamie Dornan

#30. There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

Terri Blackstock

#31. I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

Terri Blackstock

#32. I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally repented of doing things my way and told God that, in the future, I would only write books that glorified Him. That meant I had to buy back some of my contracts.

Terri Blackstock

#33. What are we, Charlie's Angels?

Terri Blackstock