Annie Downs Quotes & Sayings

be brave enough to love the people around you, even if it looks like sacrifice and feels like loss. — Annie F. Downs

We were never meant for a wimpy life. — Annie F. Downs

Courage implies action. like you are going somewhere or going to do something. Courage. Maps.Movement — Annie F. Downs

God is perfect (we are not). He sees the big picture (we do not). He knows everything (we do not). So I choose to believe in this - that I am who I am on purpose, that the One who made me has a purpose and has unconditional love for me and those in my life. — Annie F. Downs

Be brave for yourself, be brave for your God, and be brave for the onlookers, the ones who will be inspired by you to inspire others. — Annie F. Downs

Believe in yourself," this is what I want you to think about. Don't believe in yourself in such a way that you think you can accomplish anything on your own. You can't. To believe in yourself means to believe that God made you and there is no one like you, that you have a unique call to courage, and that you can do the thing that is staring you in the face. — Annie F. Downs

I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride. — Annie F. Downs

Look for the light. The light at your feet. And follow it. An when you know its right to hold on, hold on. Grip tightly until your hands are sore. But dont let go. — Annie F. Downs

I believe in the me God made and in the me God can make. I believe he made me on purpose and didn't make any mistakes when it came to my creation. I believe he is doing a good work in me, and in you. And that though I am flawed, God is loving me and refining me and reminding me that God in me is where I can place my trust. And that is the place where I find my courage. — Annie F. Downs

I don't know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained. — Annie F. Downs

We don't screw up by saying yes to the wrong things; we screw up by letting all the floats in the parade pass us by and never jumping on one of them for a ride to the end. — Annie F. Downs

Say yes to the open door.
Say yes to the situations that stretch you and scare you and ask you to be a btter you than you think you can be.
Say yes to the movement that will only come once. — Annie F. Downs

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. — Annie Dillard

if you will go where you've never gone before, you will see God like you've never seen him before. — Annie F. Downs

A lot of courageous noes make for some beautifully brave yeses. And I guess we never know which ones come first until we are standing at the crossroads, right? It may be easier to determine the yes route, knowing it means saying no. Or maybe it is the no you are sure of, so that tell you where to say yes. — Annie F. Downs

Courage doesnt tell you to let go when you know what to grab next. Brave people let go when its time to let go. — Annie F. Downs

It seems that Jesus did that for us over and over again. He said yes to uncomfortable things - like being friends with tax collectors and eating in their homes. Like letting a "woman . . . who lived a sinful life" (Luke 7:37) break a bottle of expensive perfume over his feet in an act of love and gratitude. Like considering Judas one of his best friends, even when he knew, he knew, Judas would be the one to turn on him. — Annie F. Downs

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living. — Annie F. Downs

When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won't be perfect. It won't be easy. But it will be your story and your best story. — Annie F. Downs

... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory. — Annie F. Downs

I love when the darkness ends, don't you? Maybe that's the whole thing. Maybe I find so much breath taking beauty in the sunrise not so much because of what is starting, but more because of what it signals has ended. — Annie F. Downs

He knows we need dreams in pieces because we would be too scared of the whole puzzle. — Annie F. Downs

To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave. — Annie F. Downs

If there are seeds of courage living in all of us, waiting to bloom, words are the sun and the water that cheer on those seeds to their fullness. — Annie F. Downs

I never felt brave. I never had a moment of extreme courage or belief that this was going to be the best decision I had ever made. I just did the next thing. — Annie F. Downs