Ricky Skaggs Quotes

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Forgiveness is God's command.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.