Emily P. Freeman Quotes

Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone.

What connections and experiences have I missed because I'm either remembering a former embarrassment or fearing a new one?

In my own life I've found it to be true that when I hold on to the wrong things, the wrong things hold on to me.

Discontentment shows up when we focus on what we can't have rather than what we do have.

These hiding places may have been helping you cope, but they are not who you are.
These good girl voices challenge your identity.

I can't imagine anything more dangerous to the enemy of our hearts than people who know who they are.

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.

We teach them when they're babies that they're the center of the world, and they spend the rest of their lives realizing they're not.

Bear, believe, hope, endure. May it be so in us. May it be so in me.

The question I constantly asked myself was this: What am I supposed to do?

This is also a book abut God, about what it means
and what it doesn't mean
to believe.

But I didn't understand the middle-of-a-Tuesday Jesus. I only knew him as a when-I-get-to-heaven Jesus. He was my ticket and not much else.

To avoid the fall often means living a less-than life.

I don't remember anything about that summer because I existed in a lonely fog of memories, longing, and rejection.

True belief is movement toward God even in the midst of confusion or frustration or fear.

Knowing what you have makes all the difference.

God is already carrying your load. Why do you insist on carrying it too?

I can't prevent storms from coming, but I can decide not to invent my own.

Many people acknowledge they can never be perfect. They say, I'm not perfect, so what's the point? I'm not even gonna try.

When we listen to the voice of the Dreamer and hide behind our somedays, we miss out on the gifts of today.

God does not ask us to carry burdens. He does not ask us to save the world. He does not ask us to come up with a plan. He simply asks us to 'come'.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be tough and untouchable, but really I was squishy and sensitive.

...for those of us who never do these things at all, there can be a great sense of shame that washes over us for not being a good enough Christian.

What gives moments meaning is not the moments themselves but the presence of Christ with us in the midst of them.

God gives us the courage to face those fears and then invites us to move toward him in the midst of them.

My part is not feeding five thousand men. My part is giving my lunch to Jesus.

They just need to sit on a bench with someone else so they know they're not alone. I know this because it's what I need too.

The best part of hiding is being found.

Life is so much further from my control than even I know.

We have an enemy who would do anything to keep us distracted from Jesus.

Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.

If I am trying to please God, it is difficult to trust God. But when I trust God, pleasing him is automatic.

I choose to believe God rather than my feelings. I choose to believe I am acceptable even though I feel unacceptable.

Worship, not work, flows out of the hearts of those who believe.

To be able to look ahead while also celebrating now is a delicate kind of art, to imagine what could be without discounting what is.

Maybe those things bringing you joy do so because they are one of the many ways in which God wants to declare his glory through you.

Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world. - Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call

You think to yourself that if anyone knew who you really were, what you've really done, they would never accept you.

It's bold, rash, and embarrassing, Martha talking to God this way. But her honesty paved the way for Jesus to speak to her.

It isn't about what we are supposed to 'do'; it is about what we choose to 'believe'.

Just because it doesn't make sense 'to me' doesn't mean it doesn't make sense 'at all'.

God sees you. Not because of what you have done or not done but because you are loved.

You miss the living because you are waiting for perfect, and so you let goodness and blessings pass you right on by.

When we open our hands and take that which is offered to us, we are not only receiving the thing offered, but we are receiving the person.

We praise people who never let on they are suffering.

Let's dig deep, not to create meaning where there isn't any, but to see Christ, our companion, where he actually is, not where we wish he was.

Either way, the result is you depending on yourself to do life right. Either way, God isn't even in the room.

The number one reason we don't believe things that are true is because they don't always feel true.

Even if we aren't having sex with out boyfriends, it's still easy to find our identify in them in an unhealthy way.

And so the meaning of our lives is not dependent upon what we make of it but of what he is making of us.

That's what service does. It points us to Jesus, not to ourselves.

You have a longing to be understood, but still feel the need to protect yourself.

The deepest need of my soul isn't a personal organizer or an empty inbox. The deepest need of my soul is Christ.

What if I began to believe that the critique isn't just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art better?