30 Quotes by Laura Story

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy?

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today – not tomorrow.

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

But there’s a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God, or whether we’re going to judge what we hold to be true about God based on our circumstances.

In times of hardship and pain, we may feel abandoned by our friends, by our families, and by our Creator. But if we believe that God has left us, even for a moment, we are mistaken. God never abandons us, not even when the raindrops are falling in buckets. Through every storm of life, He is ever-present, offering us His grace, His love, and His mercies.

Our hope comes in Jesus, even when he doesn’t do what we want him to do. Even when he doesn’t fix what’s broken in our life.

I met a woman once who was married for twenty years to an unfaithful husband before they divorced. She spent the next two decades asking why and being bitter toward God. Twenty years after her divorce, she still had no answers – only bitterness. But now, she has lost forty years of her life to the jerk she married. How would her life have been different after her divorce if she’d moved from why to how?