The Quotable Susan

Quotes from my friend Susan and other equally “famous” people.

Quotes about God

“God loves you just the way you are but He also loves you too much to let you stay that way.”

-from the movie, “June bug”


“God is an artist. They make messes before they finish their masterpieces.”

-Kristin Michael


“Mother Theresa spoke of God as the great artist with our lives and the events that occur being made into a beautiful piece of art that brings Him glory. I pray as she did, ‘May I be a pencil.’”

-an anonymous friend


“Those who abandon themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from Him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural, and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual.”

-Jean-Pierre De Causade


“There are three stages in the work of God; impossible, difficult, done!”

-James Hudson Taylor


“The King is on the move and many people are going to be astounded at His accomplishments.”

-Jack Miller from his book “Come Back Barbara”

The Quotable Susan

Quotes from my friend Susan and other equally “famous” people.

Quotes about God

“It is not the level of spirituality that you can depend on, it is God and nothing less than God. For the work is God’s, and the call is God’s, and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes; the whole scene, the whole mess, the whole package –our bravery, our cowardice, our strengths, and our weaknesses. The God who could take a murderer like Moses, an adulterer like David, and a traitor like Peter and make of them strong servants of His is a God who can redeem savage Indians using as the instruments of His peace a conglomeration of sinners who sometimes look like heroes and sometimes look like villains.”

-Elizabeth Elliott from her book “Through Gates of Splendor”


“I know I cannot trust in anything other than God…certainly not in not dying which is not guaranteed. Safety is not the basis of trust. Instead, our faith needs to be in God, inexplicable God, dangerous God, other than ourselves God, who does not order this world according to our will but knows more than we do and loves more deeply.”

-Dr. Jennifer Myhre (missionary to Uganda during the 2007 Ebola outbreak)


Susan’s response when I told her that I felt as if I was pestering God over and over with the same requests; “I know, I do it too. I say, ‘Ok God, Let’s just go over this one more time; you’re God and I am not. You can do something about my concerns and I can’t. So teach me to release it to you.”

-Susan Siami (friend)