Susan Meissner quotes

Susan Meissner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Done Quotes #Chosen Quotes #Expected Quotes
“I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Prayer Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Knowing Quotes #Lifetime Quotes #Pretending Quotes
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Children Quotes #Sky Quotes #Knowing Quotes
“No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Thinking Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Breathe Quotes
“We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Pages Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Moved Quotes
“When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Believe Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Being True Quotes
“Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Choices Quotes #Magnitude Quotes
“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Book Quotes #Nuts Quotes #Way Quotes
“Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Able Quotes #Flaws Quotes #Divine Quotes
“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Girl Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Imagine Quotes #Proof Quotes #Happened Quotes
“The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.”
-- Susan Meissner

#Past Quotes #New Future Quotes

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