Words from the book

Quotes Library

Every line in God With Us was written to be carried. Find the words that meet you in your storm.

Featured quotes

"God does not wait for the storm to pass. He walks into it with you."
"I measure His faithfulness by the fact that He never left me in the storm."
The Eye·Faith
"Accountability is not punishment. It is the first breath of healing."
Dissipation·Accountability
"The issue was never Cam. The issue was the absence — mine."
Landfall·Fatherhood
"I didn't write this book because I had it all figured out. I wrote it because I finally stopped pretending I did."
"Healing is not a destination. It is a direction — chosen daily, imperfectly, and with God."
Dissipation·Healing

20 quotes

Faith
"God does not wait for the storm to pass. He walks into it with you."
God With Us
Faith
"I measure His faithfulness by the fact that He never left me in the storm."
The Eye
Accountability
"Accountability is not punishment. It is the first breath of healing."
Dissipation
Fatherhood
"The issue was never Cam. The issue was the absence — mine."
Landfall
Healing
"Avoidance is not peace. It is just a longer path to the same destruction."
Eyewall
Healing
"My greatest struggle was not simply addictions. It was avoidance."
Circulation
Relationships
"Two broken people do not make a whole. They make a bigger storm."
Fujiwhara Effect
Legacy
"You cannot outrun what you were handed. But you can choose what you pass on."
Tropical Wave
Accountability
"What we feed grows. What we starve dies. I was feeding the wrong things."
Inflow
Healing
"Chaos is not a personality. It is a wound that hasn't been treated."
Thunderstorm
Relationships
"The women were never the storms. They were simply caught in the atmosphere I created."
Tropical Disturbance
Faith
"I didn't write this book because I had it all figured out. I wrote it because I finally stopped pretending I did."
God With Us
Fatherhood
"A hurricane provides rain. That does not make it a blessing."
Landfall
Healing
"Healing is not a destination. It is a direction — chosen daily, imperfectly, and with God."
Dissipation
Faith
"In the eye of the storm, there is an impossible stillness. That is where God was waiting."
The Eye
Legacy
"Every storm begins as a disturbance. So did mine."
Tropical Wave
Identity
"The man I was becoming was not the man I was raised to be. But it was the man I was choosing to be."
Thunderstorm
Identity
"Identity is not what the storm strips away. It is what remains when the storm is done."
God With Us
Fatherhood
"Fatherhood is not a title you earn at birth. It is a posture you choose every day."
Landfall
Faith
"God was not absent in my worst years. I was absent from Him."
Eyewall

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