“Pride and resentment do not create bread that will rise. Bread, like a good life, can only be created by honest measure,… — Lisa Wingate Anger Copy Share Image
“You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.” — Lisa Wingate Faith Copy Share Image
“Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do… — Lisa Wingate Christianity Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it's the things that require a leap of faith that we need to believe in most of all.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to… — Lisa Wingate Life Copy Share Image
“Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola’s words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the” — Lisa Wingate Lighthouse Copy Share Image
“In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you’ll never embrace anything.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.… — Lisa Wingate Happy life Copy Share Image
“one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or… — Lisa Wingate Life Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don’t waste your time crying over… — Lisa Wingate Happiness Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on… — Lisa Wingate Eye to eye Copy Share Image
“The trick,” she says, “is to find a new dream for the next part of your life. Then empty nest becomes a… — Lisa Wingate Dreams Copy Share Image
“What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the… — Lisa Wingate Guidance Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe… — Lisa Wingate Darkness Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Dance music Copy Share Image
“God is a good horseman. He waits while we circle the fences of our lives—whatever they are, whether it be a bad… — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“Dawn comes after the darkness, and with it the promise that what has been torn by the sea is not lost. All… — Lisa Wingate Darkness Copy Share Image
“I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left… — Lisa Wingate Change Copy Share Image
“...setting out together in a marriage is a lot like setting out on the river. Some parts will be rough; some will… — Lisa Wingate Marriage Copy Share Image
“But is life a success when it doesn’t include time for after-school talks, and curling up to read books on winter nights,… — Lisa Wingate Big things Copy Share Image
“Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden? Trent” — Lisa Wingate Guilt Copy Share Image
“...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips” — Lisa Wingate Every moment Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you’re ready to walk it, but because He knows… — Lisa Wingate Path Copy Share Image
“Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep… — Lisa Wingate Best thing Copy Share Image
“The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else.… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother’s voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball… — Lisa Wingate Mother Copy Share Image
“Well, you know how a river moves a mountain.” The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming… — Lisa Wingate River Copy Share Image
“Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us.… — Lisa Wingate Beloved Copy Share Image
“One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations.” — Lisa Wingate Children Copy Share Image
“Hardship finds its way into every life. It’s just much easier to see our own than other people’s.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“Prayers are answered in ways we don’t choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.” — Lisa Wingate Grace Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally come to fully understand that you can’t fix another person. You can’t fix the past. You can only change your… — Lisa Wingate Change Copy Share Image
“best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’.” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday… — Lisa Wingate Book Copy Share Image
“Trust. It was possible to trust that which you could not predict, or plan, or control. In fact, it was essential. It… — Lisa Wingate Trust Copy Share Image
