“Prayers are answered in ways we don’t choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.” — Lisa Wingate Grace 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn’t… — Lisa Wingate Christianity Copy Share Image
“There was no other place I loved so well as this one." "Me as well,"... For all the places I've loved, there… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your… — Lisa Wingate Children 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
“Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not… — Lisa Wingate Dance Copy Share Image
“How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And… — Lisa Wingate Changing the world 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
“I hold Huckleberry Finn real tight against my chest and start across the yard. Now we can leave this place behind anytime… — Lisa Wingate Arcadia Copy Share Image
“All of life is quilted from the scraps of what once was and is no more- the places we have been, the… — Lisa Wingate Life Copy Share Image
“There are times when you awake, and sense the coming day hovering just beyond the edge of the world. Your heartbeat quickens,… — Lisa Wingate Dark night Copy Share Image
“My heart filled with Nick's smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the… — Lisa Wingate Capacity to love Copy Share Image
“Holding a worn Bible, he read from Paul's letter to the Corinthians about the true nature of love - what it is,… — Lisa Wingate Bible 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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
“You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.” — Lisa Wingate Faith Copy Share Image
“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
“But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?” — Lisa Wingate Birdie Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about having people believe good things about you is that, without even realizing it, you want to make those… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“The journey itself was the architect of the wood. The interior would never be fully dark because the struggle had cracked it,… — Lisa Wingate Journey Copy Share Image
“I realize that those who have loved us are never really gone. They live on in all the ones we love and… — Lisa Wingate Love Copy Share Image
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses.” — Lisa Wingate Music Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, sometimes we're hardest on the people we know we can count on not to ditch us no matter how… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
