The Quote Collection

"You survived things that should have destroyed you."

"The miracle is not that I never fell. The miracle is that I kept getting back up."

"Sometimes victory looks like getting up one more time."

"God has never been surprised by anything that surprised me."

"Faith is not pretending the storm isn't real. Faith is believing God is greater than the storm."

"Sometimes faith is simply showing up one more day."

"Facts change. Truth remains."

"The fact may be temporary. The truth is eternal."

"Facts tell me where I am. Truth tells me who I am."

"I am not what happened to me."

"My history explains me. It does not define me."

"My worth was settled at the cross."

"Nothing happens by chance."

"There are no wasted chapters in God's story."

"Purpose survives storms."

"Delayed is not denied."

"Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean God isn't working."

"Waiting is not punishment."

"Healing is not always instant, but God is always present."

"My diagnosis does not have the final word."

"I refuse to let my condition become my conclusion."

"Loving people is holy work."

"Caregivers carry burdens nobody sees."

"Strength often looks like showing up when nobody notices."

"Grief is love with nowhere to go."

"Healing does not require forgetting."

"Missing someone is not weakness."

"Not everyone assigned to your past belongs in your future."

"Forgiveness sets the prisoner free — and often the prisoner was me."

"Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is walk away in peace."

"Church hurt is real, but so is healing."

"People may fail you. Jesus never will."

"Don't let a bad church experience rob you of a good God."

"Keep showing up."

"Keep believing."

"Keep standing."

"Grace is not permission to stay where you are. Grace is power to become who God created you to be."

"God's grace is greater than my worst day."

"Grace found me when I was not looking for it."

"The chair is part of the story. It is not the whole story."

"I build from the chair, not in spite of it."

"Three times a week my blood leaves my body to be cleaned and returns. That is not weakness. That is perseverance in action."

"My family's story does not begin with me."

"At least six generations of my family have lived, survived, and built on this soil."

"From a plantation back porch to a publishing house. That is not coincidence. That is God."

"What Aunt Willie Mae knew, no classroom ever taught."

"Sometimes the most educated person in the room is the least wise."

"Experience is a teacher that does not give you the lesson before the test."

"I am loved by God."

"I am accepted by God."

"I am chosen by God."

"I am still here after the diagnosis."

"I am still here after the heartbreak."

"I am still here after the betrayal."

"Fifty free teachings because nobody should have to pay to find hope in a hard season."

"I built a congregation in a dialysis center. God specializes in unexpected venues."

"Ministry is not always a pulpit. Sometimes it is a chair."

"Life hit hard. Grace hit harder. And by the grace of God — I'm still here."

"Nothing happens by chance."

"The fact may be what you see. The truth is what God said."