Susan May Warren Quotes & Sayings

But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins - my real sins - was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. — Susan May Warren

So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans. — Susan May Warren

That we shouldn't base God's desire to help us on our opinions of ourselves. Otherwise we'd always be in over our heads. We need to start believing that he wants to help us. Even when we make mistakes. — Susan May Warren

But Dani made him feel like the guy he wanted to be. Trustworthy. Honorable. She wanted him want to be more, to do anything to see respect - even love - in her eyes — Susan May Warren

I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective. — Susan May Warren

You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You're not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running. — Susan May Warren

We expect God's love to be all nice and neatly packaged. But He'll do what He has to in order to draw us to that place where we need Him. Know Him. Are overwhelmed by His lover for us. — Susan May Warren

Maybe that was the key-just because she'd made a mistake with her life didn't mean that God did, and it hopefully didn't change the way God saw her. — Susan May Warren

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain. — Susan May Warren

But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. It forces us into God's arms, and that's where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him. — Susan May Warren

It's because when God adopts you into His family, you belong to Him. He stamps His name on you. A name that comes with His protection. And His birthright, which is eternity and the power to live with joy on this earth. — Susan May Warren

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you. — Susan May Warren

And yesterday, when she'd claimed a quiet place on — Susan May Warren

You're treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn't operate that way. — Susan May Warren

Dan came around the pulpit. "If you're standing in a place today where you know you need more--healing, hope, a glimpse that there is a happy ending--it's time to become a rebel. To do something daring and wild and reach out for grace, even though it doesn't make sense. But I warn you, once you embrace Christ, you too become a rule breaker. Because a life committed to God requires us to live uncomfortably. Inconveniently. Accountably. Bravely. Transparently. Vulnerably. It requires us to love without rules. Welcome to Grace. — Susan May Warren

Suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. — Susan May Warren

I know that God loves you. And that He's not interested in obeying your plans. He's interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand. — Susan May Warren

Don't for a minute think that God has forgotten about you or doesn't have your back. And don't base God's love or desire to help you on your opinion of yourself. Base it on who God says He is. — Susan May Warren

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future. — Susan May Warren

So plan A is a bust. God can make plan B better than plan A ever would have been. Plan B. Or even plan C. — Susan May Warren

Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it. — Susan May Warren

I'm safe, even if I'm a jerk."
"I have friends who will hunt you down and kill you if I go missing. — Susan May Warren

Some things, like love, might be worth hoping for. That it was okay to long for it, even in the face of the impossible. — Susan May Warren

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith
the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away. — Susan May Warren

I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive. — Susan May Warren

Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their 'reputation' or shame won't let them pick up a non-fiction book. They can watch characters struggle, then experience the truth that sets them free. — Susan May Warren

Because He knew that no matter what we did, we would always need Him. — Susan May Warren

God's only concern is what you do with the life you've been given. — Susan May Warren

It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man. — Susan May Warren

I've heard girls like it when you listen — Susan May Warren

God's love is not cautious, not wise, not sensible, and not remotely conservative. In fact, loving another person the way God loves them is the greatest adventure we can have. — Susan May Warren

I think God's blessing might have everything to do with Him and His riches, and nothing to do with whether we deserve it. — Susan May Warren

How about this - let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him. — Susan May Warren

It's not about how you feel. It's about what you do. — Susan May Warren

Stop looking at what you can't do and look ahead, to your safe landing. Visualize it. — Susan May Warren

I think everyone who gets to have dreams should reach for them. I want to help you reach. — Susan May Warren

Jeremy had a mysterious, breath-taking allure about him, the feel of autumn, like riding down a leaf-strewn road, churning up the fragrance of tomorrow in her wake. Yes, Jeremy was a dangerous mix of something sweetly familiar and the enticing scent of change. — Susan May Warren

When your heart's desire is the will of the Lord above everything else, then life loses its threat because His love will carry us through every situation. — Susan May Warren

How she loved a man who would fit his life around the seasoning needs of a fish. — Susan May Warren

I'm not wicked." "Jensen, you've spent three years lying low, trying to make everything right. But you can't redeem yourself. You can't make yourself and your life whole again. God can. — Susan May Warren

banker, mayor of Frost - built their turreted — Susan May Warren

I can suffer alone, or I can hold on to God in my pain. I can be meek and trust Him to make something good out of it. Only Jesus can heal the wounds, only Jesus can fill up those dark places with light, with understanding. Only He can quench our thirst for hope. — Susan May Warren

There is no life bigger than the one lived, every day, in awe of God. God showing up in our lives to love us despite ourselves. That is a treasure we can find every single day. — Susan May Warren

I don't think God is ever done speaking into our lives. Even when we don't want to hear it. Even when our hearts are cold. — Susan May Warren

The question isn't who causes something to happen, but rather, whether you see the outcome with His eyes or yours. Whether or not you trust He's got it all in His hands. — Susan May Warren

Yeah. She's got this pretty red hair, green eyes, a smile that could knock the wind out of a guy -"
Casper was shaking his head.
"What?"
"You're right. You don't deserve her. I think you need to introduce her to me."
Derek grinned and reached for him, but Casper danced away.
"You know, I bet she'll take one look at me and forget all about you anyway, Dare."
"You think so."
Casper took off running.
"Yeah, you'd better run, punk!" Derek yelled after him, grinning.
Take a chance. — Susan May Warren

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game. — Susan May Warren

The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone. — Susan May Warren

The problem with keeping a secret is that you don't give someone a chance to come through for you, to prove to you that they love you unconditionally. — Susan May Warren

My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter — Susan May Warren

Everyone, even within a family, is different. We all have different needs, different issues we struggle with. Part of being a family is learning to face those differences, forgive, and accept so that you can move on to love. — Susan May Warren

C'mon. Just a plate of food, and I promise, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just perch yourself in the corner, eat a plate of ribs, and glower." She winked. "You know, be your usual self. — Susan May Warren

But a guy didn't have to be a charmer with the right girl. No, the right girl made him say the right things, feel like he could stand on top of the world. The right girl laughed at his jokes and met his eyes with a smile that said he could do no wrong. — Susan May Warren

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. — Susan May Warren

Yeah, seeing her unsettled him, but it was her words that nearly took him apart. Because sometime after his heart started beating again, after he'd grabbed ahold of his emotions, she'd become the woman that, once upon a time, he'd fallen in love with. — Susan May Warren

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many, — Susan May Warren

I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause. — Susan May Warren

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain. — Susan May Warren

She couldn't move, couldn't breathe, with the sense of his gaze reaching in, taking ahold of the shaking inside. He'd always had that power - the crazy calm aura that seemed to suggest, given the chance, he could tame the world. Make the elements surrender, smooth out the rough edges of a mountain, and even teach the sky to call his name. Fearless. Confident. — Susan May Warren

But you don't have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven. — Susan May Warren

The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you. — Susan May Warren

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If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you. — Susan May Warren

Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing. — Susan May Warren

It's an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on the outside of your body. You risk a little more each day as he wanders from your arms into the world. — Susan May Warren

We look at our own problems, and we say ... why? Maybe we should look at our blessings and ask the same thing. — Susan May Warren