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The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3) QUOTES

The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3) QUOTES

1 " Maybe we all need to forgive our mamas and papas for the things they did that hurt us or confused us ... I came to realize that I needed to forgive Mr. Daniels for the resentment I'd allowed myself to feel toward him. If he was my father, then maybe God wanted that word to mean something in my life. And maybe the first thing it meant was forgiveness. I realized that I could never altogether be the person God wanted me to be without it. I realized that lots of times wholeness as a person starts with forgiving others, and usually somebody close to you like a mother or father. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3)

2 " That’s the trouble with people of all colors—they judge folks by what they think they see, which is usually only on the outside. But it’s what’s inside that counts. That’s what makes a person who he or she really is. And "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3)

3 " But a good knife. Cutting out bad things from inside you’s a good and necessary thing, and if it sometimes takes a little pain to get it done, I reckon that’s the price a person has to pay to grow up and become the kind of person God wants him to be—or who God wants her to be. "

― Michael R. Phillips , The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart (Shenandoah Sisters, #3)