Suzanne’s Favorite Quotes and Scriptures
“Go. Be. Love. The world needs you.”
– Susan Branch
“I don’t have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.”
– Michael J. Fox
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
– Dorothy Day (Catholic Social Activist)
“God has given us our memories that we might have roses in December.”
– M. Barrie
“I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it, because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”
– Nadia Comaneci, Olympic Gymnast
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
– Jim Elliot
“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”
– Dorothy Day
“Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.”
– Mary Oliver
“It is a serious thing /just to be alive /on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
– Mary Oliver
“We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do what we think we cannot.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.”
– Prov 3:5-6
“Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’”
– Matthew 19:14
“Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost – his or her wildest, most messed-up children – the way you’d ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.”
– Anne Lamott
“This is the reason we do not give up. Our human body is wearing out. But our spirits are getting stronger every day. The little troubles we suffer now for a short time are making us ready for the great things God is going to give us forever. We do not look at the things that can be seen. We look at the things that cannot be seen. The things that can be seen will come to an end. But the things that cannot be seen will last forever.”
– 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (David Krupps’s’ Favorite Verse)
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
– Psalm 23:4
“There is power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”
– Amy Poehler
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!”
– Emily Dickinson
“I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am! Send me.”
– Isaiah 6:8
“Children are not a distraction from more important work.
They are the most important work.”
– John Trainer, MD
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
Only love can do that.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I believe in kindness. Also, in mischief. Also, in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
– Mary Oliver