12 Quotes by Annie F. Downs

We were never meant for a wimpy life.

Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.

It is scary to be who you’re meant to be. It doesn’t feel easy because it’s not. But we were made for this. Like today’s scripture says, we have holy work. Why be brave? Because when we’re brave enough to share the God stories in our lives, it changes the people around us. It changes us to share them.

The Bible makes it plain and simple in Matthew 12:34: For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

He knows we need dreams in pieces because we would be too scared of the whole puzzle.

When God tells you to be brave, he will make it work. It won’t be perfect. It won’t be easy. But it will be your story and your best story.

To see yourself the way God sees you is the first step in being brave.

I don’t know how it works, the science and math of it all, but I know that love given is courage gained.