Lisa Wingate Quotes

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you’re the one in charge of the universe.

Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.

Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.

I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn’t see anything but mountains ahead, that where there’s a mountain, there’s always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you’ll never embrace anything.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time - something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won’t come out straight.

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

You let a possibility into your mind, you let it into your life.