172 Quotes by Mandy Hale

God knows what you're ready for. He knows what your arms are able to carry. He knows what your heart can contain. He knows what’s coming, and He knows how and when to prepare you for it. He knows the right time, the right place, the right person, the right answer. He knows, so you don't have to.

Sometimes you have to realize that you’ve HAD enough to realize that you ARE enough.

As it turns out, it was that very rock bottom that became the most firm foundation I had ever planted my feet on. A foundation so solid, it finally provided the springboard I needed to outrun that teasing, taunting shadow of unworthiness that had followed me my entire life.

God never promised we wouldn’t know pain. He isn’t the author of it, but He isn’t the bodyguard blocking it from us, either. Jesus Himself knew intense, agonizing pain. The worst kind, as a matter of fact. Betrayal. False accusations. A humiliating death on a cross for a crime He didn’t commit. No, God never promised us we wouldn’t know pain. That we wouldn’t know Ground Zero moments and dark nights of the soul. What He DID promise was to be with us in the midst of our pain.

Sometimes “no” is the most loving, gentle answer God can give.

The beauty of life is in its shades of light and dark, heartbreak and healing, joy and sadness, laughter and tears. Everything can't possibly be happy because then NOTHING would be happy.

You haven’t yet learned that your worth isn’t found in him. Or in the man before him. Or in any man at all.

Sometimes it takes great heartbreak to find great healing and even greater wholeness.

It's an audacious way to live, indeed, standing with the door to your heart and life wide open. But isn't that the REAL fairytale…a brave, bold, well-lived life?