13 Quotes by Alana Terry

It's during those times that we're weakest when God can show himself the most dramatically. And I'm not talking about just taking way your panic attacks, pumpkin, although if he wanted to do that, he certainly could. What I'm talking about is you having the freedom and courage to live out your life - stress, anxiety, and all - in front of others with a vulnerability and grace that can only come from above.

No. She couldn't let her mind dwell on all those horrific possibilities. Seize her thoughts. Take them captive. That's what she had to do.

Now, I'm all for basic precautions. What I'm not for is fear and paranoia.

She'd never known you could feel so full and so heartbroken all at the same time.She wondered what else about life she hadn't yet discovered.She was ready to find out.

Just because someone else on the other side of the world is experiencing a different kind of suffering, that doesn't diminish what you've gone through.

[S]uffering is suffering no matter what you believe.

I'm going to thank God every day that he forgave me for my sins and saved me from an eternity of fire and terror. Because I've tasted enough fire and terror on earth. I certainly don't want it chasing me into the afterlife.I'm saved now. And I thank God for that. But it's terrifying to think of how close I came to the end without knowing him at all.How close I came to dying with no hope or chance of salvation whatsoever.

Sometimes those distractions are what God's telling us to pray about most.

It was always intimidating starting a new journal. So much pressure to make everything perfect from the start. It was a relief each time she made her first mistake or two and realized that her journal was more gracious and forgiving toward her than she was toward herself.