Susan Meissner Quotes

• 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, Chosen, Expected

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.5, WaterBrook

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• 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.

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  Children, Sky, Knowing

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Realizing, Breathe

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• 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.

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  Prayer, People, Soul

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.57, WaterBrook

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• La confianza tiende a minimizar la magnitud de la elección.

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  Choices, Magnitude

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.56, WaterBrook

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• 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.

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  Book, Nuts, Way

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.43, WaterBrook

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• We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

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  Knowing, Lifetime, Pretending

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.45, WaterBrook

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• 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.

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  Girl, Kindness, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Able, Flaws, Divine

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• 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.

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  Believe, Empowering, Being True

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• 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.

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  Pages, Rooms, Moved

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.153, WaterBrook

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• You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.

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  Imagine, Proof, Happened

  Susan Meissner (2005). “A Window to the World”, p.181, Harvest House Publishers

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

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  Past, New Future

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