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21 " Shame is a a choice Katie. It's not how I want you to feel or how God wants you to feel."~Asher Powell "
― Tammy L. Gray , My Hope Next Door (The Fairfield #1)
22 " I know you think hiding is your best option. But trust me, you have to feel something in order to heal. Ignoring pain only makes it worse."~Asher Powell "
23 " Trust wasn't just sharing secrets. It was sharing hurts, fears, and failures. And even though she'd given him her history, she'd yet to let him anywhere near her heart. "
24 " If you want us to work, you have to include me, even in the parts that aren't so pretty. I've been in a relationship with walls, and masks, and fake smiles. I called it love, but it wasn't. What we have-real, honest truth, painful or not-that's love. "
25 " Prayer is not about changing your situation, although sometimes God grants those requests. It's about changing your heart. "
― Tammy L. Gray , Love and a Little White Lie (State of Grace, #1)
26 " A friend once told me that no good would ever come from a lie. But I don't agree. I think sometimes people don't really want the truth. They want to believe the best in people and smashing that illusion feels just as cruel. "
27 " Because in this moment, I'm not running or hiding from something I don't want to face. This time I'm walking forward, intentionally, purposefully. "
28 " Complaining is the front door to self-pity, which is a horribly unattractive quality, even for someone as beautiful as you. "
― Tammy L. Gray , Until I Knew Myself (Bentwood #1)
29 " Because sometimes it's more about loving a person through a hard time than it is about forcing a conversion. God was going to do what He wanted to do. Meanwhile, I was convicted to use every part of this amazing ministry to show you His love. "
30 " All this time I thought God had forgotten me. That He had left me purposeless and broken. But He was here the whole time, and like Louie, I just had to find my way home. "
― Tammy L. Gray , Love and the Silver Lining (State of Grace, #2)
31 " Ignoring him wasn't working. As much as she wanted to push Asher away, as she'd been able to do with every other person in her life, she couldn't. He'd infiltrated and claimed some part of her soul. "
32 " For some reason, her words snapped the zip-tie that had been holding his secret. She'd just given him permission to be flawed. "
33 " You need to make a decision. Either be with her and accept the bad with the good, or get out of her life. Because like it or not, you represent Christ to her, and the last thing she needs is for you to walk away when things get hard. "
34 " I just feel very inadequate sometimes.” “Well, honey, if you weren’t, then God wouldn’t get the glory, now would He? "
― Tammy L. Gray , My Unexpected Hope (The Fairfield #2)
35 " . . . Tyler felt the hole widen in his chest. A niggling sense that he was stepping off into a deep, dark hole. He had no history. No legacy to aspire to . . . Isolation pressed on every side as he tried to fight the horrifying truth: He was a twenty-five year old orphan with no idea who he was supposed to be. "
36 " She’d spent her whole life needing others to validate her, and while that hadn’t completely disappeared, she did feel her own voice rising above the others, guiding her, telling her it was okay to be on her own. "
37 " The two of us were never meant to be forever - just stepping-stones on the journey to something more. "
38 " How is it possible that this blessing is mine? This broken, cynical girl who denied God her entire life - how could He give me so much?I don't have an answer to that one. I doubt I ever will. "
39 " It's amazing how life can change in a flash. One year. That's all it took to transform my world. I walked into Grace Community lost, broken, and desperately searching for meaning in my life. Now I know exactly who I am. "
40 " We can't spend our whole lives worrying about how some random person perceives us. "