Sheila Walsh Quotes

“One of the things I am very aware of not having in my life is the love of my father ... but I know now that it is hard to make up that loss in the life of a daughter.
It's your dad who tells you that you are beautiful.
Its your dad who picks you up over his head and carries you on his shoulders.
It's your did who will fight the monsters under your bed.
It's your dad who tells you that you are worth a lot, so don't settle for the first guy who tells you you're pretty.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”

— Sheila Walsh

“My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.”

— Sheila Walsh

“The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.”

— Sheila Walsh

A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.

— Sheila Walsh

“If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.”

— Sheila Walsh

You are loved, you are beautiful, you are treasured, and you are a daughter of the living God.

— Sheila Walsh

“I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.”

— Sheila Walsh

Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. (Psalm 86:11 ESV)

— Sheila Walsh

While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we know is true no matter what we feel.

— Sheila Walsh

When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.

— Sheila Walsh

“But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it's true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.”

— Sheila Walsh

“It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.”

— Sheila Walsh

“David would enter the crucible of suffering where truly great servants of God are made. Perhaps you are there now. One of the most devastating realities of this kind of suffering is that often the one you thought would be your protector becomes the one who measures out the pain. All that longing for justice, for fairness, for having everything as it should be seems useless. As you think on the glory days of the past, your heart aches to turn back the clock, but you can't. In these moments it's tempting to believe that God has forgotten about us, or even worse, that He simply doesn't care-His favor has moved on. If you are there right now, my heart aches for you. No one signs up for this school of suffering, and yet the deep work that God does in this painful, lonely place is rarely produced anywhere else.”

— Sheila Walsh

“If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.”

— Sheila Walsh

“My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.”

— Sheila Walsh

“In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!”

— Sheila Walsh

“Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.”

— Sheila Walsh

“God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.”

— Sheila Walsh

“When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.”

— Sheila Walsh

“God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.”

— Sheila Walsh

“It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.”

— Sheila Walsh

“Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.”

— Sheila Walsh

“It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.”

— Sheila Walsh

“When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.”

— Sheila Walsh

“If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.”

— Sheila Walsh

“I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.”

— Sheila Walsh

“I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as if God had sent in a team of the world's finest artists overnight-and I was privy to the opening day of his spectacle. As I slowly drove along this festive row, leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield. It seemed as if I had landed in Oz. I was strongly tempted to get out and clap at God's imagination.”

— Sheila Walsh

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.

— Sheila Walsh

Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.

— Sheila Walsh

“I've never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.”

— Sheila Walsh

“God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.”

— Sheila Walsh

“The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.”

— Sheila Walsh