Lynn Austin

Image of Lynn Austin
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Heart
Image of Lynn Austin
Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Fire
Image of Lynn Austin
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Sea
Image of Lynn Austin
So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I've been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Journey
Image of Lynn Austin
I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Love
Image of Lynn Austin
Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Eye
Image of Lynn Austin
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Sea
Image of Lynn Austin
No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Distance
Image of Lynn Austin
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Laughing
Image of Lynn Austin
You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Ocean
Image of Lynn Austin
You pray. And you allow the Lord to be your strength. Remember the Lord doesn't give you strength. He is your strength.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Giving
Image of Lynn Austin
Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Joy
Image of Lynn Austin
Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Eye
Image of Lynn Austin
Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Hands
Image of Lynn Austin
The land promised to Abraham and his descendants is once again theirs. God always keeps His promises. Even in times of cataclysmic upheaval and change, God's love and faithfulness are unchanging.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Land
Image of Lynn Austin
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Book
Image of Lynn Austin
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Prayer
Image of Lynn Austin
Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Sometimes
Image of Lynn Austin
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Weed
Image of Lynn Austin
Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Eyebrows
Image of Lynn Austin
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Believe
Image of Lynn Austin
The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Sleep
Image of Lynn Austin
[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.
- Lynn Austin
Collection: Want