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Looking into You QUOTES

Looking into You QUOTES

1 " When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's hold you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

2 " And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don’t want to face. I don’t think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

3 " The past is like grace. It’s not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

4 " You can live under the weight of your past or the weight of forgiveness. If you choose the former, you’ll constantly be working off the guilt like someone who overeats at the holidays. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

5 " What if he is the one who brought her to me? "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

6 " And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

7 " We think we’ll have questions for God when we get to heaven, but when we actually see him, we’ll understand it’s not about getting our questions answered because the questions won’t be important. We’ll finally be with God. So I would just look at her. And if she let me, I would hug her. For a long time.” I "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

8 " Thank you, loving Father, for our Paige. Write your Word on her heart. You say in your Word that you store up success for the upright. Pour out your love on her and through her. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

9 " I made a mistake. Disobedience has consequences.” I sighed. “Maybe we shouldn’t have tried to hide it. Maybe I should have kept my daughter. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

10 " Now, in some cosmic act of God or coincidence, the girl had returned to me. Who was I kidding? There is no coincidence. There is punishment, retribution. Or perhaps love and mercy and grace. Which was it? "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

11 " There is no greater power on earth than a mother’s love, unless it is a mother’s guilt. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

12 " The pain in my body could not match the pain her cry surfaced in my heart. They cleaned her, weighed her, wrapped her, and whisked her away. And it was then that I realized the much-greater pain is not in giving birth but in releasing your own child. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You

13 " wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don’t get all your questions answered. "

― Chris Fabry , Looking into You