Susan Meissner Quotes

What's there to remember if not the good things?

Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?

I'm not sure why God made us the way He did... As to why we're here, well, I think maybe we're here to learn to love Him. To learn to love God and to want to be with Him. I think we're here to cultivate our longing for heaven. 'Luke sighed. 'Heaven,' he said, 'seems like a long, long way off, Dad.'Jack nodded. 'It does. But I think God gives us glimpses of heaven from time to time to help up nurture the desire... I see glimpses every spring when the earth renews itself. And sometimes I see glimpses in a worship service when I'm singing about Jesus and all of a sudden I feel like I'm right there in His arms.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.

Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.

We're going to be okay. Lainey isn't the glue that keeps us together. We are. We're the glue. Okay?

We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of ending up unwanted and unneeded.