Alisa Quotes & Sayings

Come to God with your emptiness, and He will fill you with His best! — Alisa Hope Wagner

I want to be a person who has her eyes on what unites people, not what divides us. — Alisa Hope Wagner

That house was no longer my home. — Alisa Mullen

Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman — Alisa Steinberg

Seek God in the morning. Praise Him during the day. Meditate on Him at night. — Alisa Hope Wagner

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I could so totally rock the homeless scene if I didn't have a baby growing inside me. — Alisa Mullen

At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises! — Alisa Hope Wagner

I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity. — Alisa Hope Wagner

There is no time for grief; there never is. — Christopher Pike

Perhaps the reason why my life is so monumentally messed up is because I am an active participant. — Alisa Mullen

Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day? — Alisa Mullen

If I die tomorrow, you aren't allowed to say my life was cut short at age 25. I did more in those years than most people will ever do. — Alisa Mullen

Los caminos de la vida, no son como yo pensaba, no son como imaginaba, no son como yo creia. The roads of life are not how I thought they'd be, are not how I imagined they'd be, are not how I believed they'd be. — Alisa Valdes

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Way back when I was four, I became increasingly sickly and spiritless. My mother took me to the doctor, who poked and prodded and deliberated. In the end, he pronounced, "She's depressed." Depressed at four years old. Why? No one had an answer....I have long evaded the real reasons for my discontentment. I still can't tell what they are, precisely, but I feel their presence most acutely in moments like this one with my grandmother, imagining a day in a big-box store that had replaced an old farm. — Alisa Smith

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We will live an up-and-down Christian life if our faith is based on circumstances and not our faithful God. Stand firm in God's promises! — Alisa Hope Wagner

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes — Alisa Mullen

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. — Christopher Pike

No one is perfect. We all need a Savior. The more honest we become about our flaws, the more we'll reach out for the grace and love of Jesus. — Alisa Hope Wagner

People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I never heard such drivel in my life," said Evangeline Fairfield.

It was the most injudicious remark she'd ever made. Arethusa turned on her like a wounded tigress.

Madam, I write such drivel! — Alisa Craig

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur. — Alisa Solomon

Without Christ, I would be what the world desires and praises. Then I would shudder and fade into eternal meaninglessness. No thank you. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Power, wealth and immortality
they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means. — Christopher Pike

We can love God out of emotion; but when we can love Him out of emotion, knowledge and strength, our faith will thrive through all things. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Our love for the Lord can be the same in the silence and the storm, in the winning and the losing, and in the abundance and the lack. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Every time I try to be righteous by my own actions, God reminds me my righteousness comes from Jesus alone. — Alisa Hope Wagner

God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me. — Alisa Hope Wagner

A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story. — Christopher Pike

The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Fiction can do more than entertain you; it can change you — Alisa Hope Wagner

Her voice is raw. She sings from the deepest cracks of her heart and her soul. When she closes her eyes, I know she has lost herself in the music. - Unrequited — Alisa Mullen

I was in way too deep. I was cut in so many places that I felt like I was bleeding out from every part of my body. Being outside and watching people live their normal lives took me out of my head, but the minute I stepped back into the apartment, I was muted inside. No words, no actions, no me. - Unsettled — Alisa Mullen

So go love someone that wants to love you back. Whoever that lad is will be one lucky person. — Alisa Mullen

There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg — Alisa Steinberg

I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air. — Christopher Pike

If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Prayer reaches into the supernatural with seeds of faith that grow into natural occurrences disguised as coincidences, but we know better. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways! — Alisa Hope Wagner

There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven. — Alisa Hope Wagner

God created us in His image, and He gave us an imagination with His imprint to create things for His glory! — Alisa Hope Wagner

The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love. — Alisa Hope Wagner

When you are going through a test, just remember it WILL become your testimony to glorify God. Stay faithful and see the goodness of God!! — Alisa Hope Wagner

The Holy Spirit is the most influential mentor in your life. He is always willing to teach and guide you in all Truth. — Alisa Hope Wagner

There's no better teacher for writing than reading ... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Alisa Valdes

Obeying God's laws doesn't make us holy because we are already holy in Christ. Obeying God's laws reveals our love and unleashes God's best! — Alisa Hope Wagner

God's creativity in us comes with our consistency in Him. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Though your position in the hearts of others may change with circumstance, your position in God's heart never changes. You are His beloved! — Alisa Hope Wagner

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into. — Alisa Valdes

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle! — Alisa Hope Wagner

When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Avant-garde, adj.
This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind, including songs from the Empire Records soundtrack and an interval of nineteenth-century German poetry, recited with a lisp.
"What does avant-garde mean, anyway?" I asked.
"I believe it translates as favor to your friends," you replied. — David Levithan

I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus! — Alisa Hope Wagner

Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm
inner peace in the middle of chaos. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world. — Alisa Hope Wagner

An imagination submitted to the movement of the Holy Spirit is a powerful tool in the hands of God to write testaments of His glory. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I not only want to understand God's revelations, I want to be changed by them. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Faith is the receiver of grace; unbelief is the rejector. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace! — Alisa Hope Wagner

The more ardently I see humanity as a glorious abstract that must conform to my ideal of how the world should be, the harder it is for me to love the person on the other side of the picket line who is holding up progress. I can love the downtrodden in the abstract, but as I shivered under the bridge that night with Jorge, I realized that it's harder to love the illegal immigrant with the bottle-slashed face and the body unwashed for weeks, the workers gathering to eat day-old bread and chicken and rice out of foam containers, the crowd of thousands clamoring for bread and fish and healing, the unclean woman hoping to touch the hem of the Savior's robe. — Alisa Harris

Because love stands above Darkness and Light.
Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."
Because love is also Power.
And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it. — Sergei Lukyanenko

The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus died to give us: His holiness. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. — Alisa Harris

I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart. — Alisa Hope Wagner

People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there — Alisa Hope Wagner

herbal tea infused with Echinacea extract. — Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

When Jesus tells us to sit and wait, we either want to create chaos or fall asleep. But we can wait expectantly, remaining in truth & love. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Jesus is the antioxidant that terminates all the free radicals (sin) in our lives. Consume more of Jesus and watch your overall health rise! — Alisa Hope Wagner

Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The heart easily commends and condemns itself, depending on our wave like performance. That is why we must base our worth in Jesus alone. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error. — Christopher Pike

The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream. — Christopher Pike

It's easy to be a Jesus freak in the noise, but can we be Jesus freaks in the silence? — Alisa Hope Wagner

God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it's better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak in faith because of them. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off. — Christopher Pike

Our failures don't forfeit God's faithfulness. — Alisa Hope Wagner

These questions are difficult. The answers are not obvious, and so there should be some pausing, some angst, some honest uncertainty as people struggle to decide the best course of action. But I see none of this in the press releases and reports I read. Instead I see both sides telling us that to be uncertain, to dialogue instead of rail, is to betray the cause. — Alisa Harris

PB&J-dilla - Spread some natural (organic) PB (or other nut or seed butter) on one side of your tortilla. Top with jam of choice. Add some fruit, if you want (sliced banana and green apple work nicely). Fold. Place in a hot skillet and toast about 2 minutes per side. Remove from pan, cut into quesadilla-style wedges and serve or pack into lunchboxes. — Alisa Marie Fleming

If we truly believe that we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, our actions would begin to reflect that belief. — Alisa Hope Wagner

I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough. — Alisa Steinberg

I don't want to forget my origin: I'm an eternal spirit placed in a body put on this earth for only a short time to fulfill a purpose. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Humble me so I do what is right. Break me so I cling to You. Expose me so my motives stay pure. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We must be careful not to recite ugliness in our hearts because it will eventually find its way out. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions. — Alisa Hope Wagner

You can have faith that God never lets you down even when circumstances do. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing! — Alisa Hope Wagner

Run from God, and He will pursue you. Submit to Him, and He will move you. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Making changes in our lives is never easy. If you're not struggling, you're not really changing. Push through until you reach a new normal! — Alisa Hope Wagner

Your relationship or lack of relationship with God through Jesus Christ continues after your last breath on this earth. — Alisa Hope Wagner