Lawana Blackwell Quotes

“Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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— Lawana Blackwell

“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
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— Lawana Blackwell

“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.”

— Lawana Blackwell

Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.

— Lawana Blackwell

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

— Lawana Blackwell

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

— Lawana Blackwell

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

— Lawana Blackwell

“Child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Faith would not be neccesary if one could be sure about everything.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Valley's don't last forever ... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“When we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process. When my husband passed away, I discovered that my relationship with God had been a shallow one at best, and that I had no reservoir of inner strength to draw from.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Age is no guarantee of maturity.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.”

— Lawana Blackwell