Ann Patchett Quotes

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Jesus is the inspiration for anyone to go the distance.

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

Do your duty and leave the rest to God.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

I believe in time and in God. Nothing else bothers me.