Sheila Walsh Quotes

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The lamp's not shining. He pointed at the glow on the wall. That's the angel. He's blinking the lamp.

Sheila Walsh
Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone or catches your joy. Be a listener, to music, to life, to others, to God. Life is noisy, but there is music in every heartbeat. God is waiting to bring joy and peace to the confusion of our days.

Sheila Walsh
The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

Sheila Walsh
Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

Sheila Walsh
God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

Sheila Walsh
It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

Sheila Walsh
When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.

Sheila Walsh
I think it's time I started believing in something.

Sheila Walsh
Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.

Sheila Walsh
Keith seems to be able to see and hear angels from time to time.

Sheila Walsh
But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

Sheila Walsh
If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

Sheila Walsh
If only everyone could see, they would realize that the one they thought weak, was actually the strongest one among them.

Sheila Walsh
If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

Sheila Walsh
I hardly think an angel would walk around like a homeless person in the middle of New York.

Sheila Walsh
Tearing out the old, icky stuff is hard, it's messy—ouch! He dropped the hammer from his right hand and shook his left. Ouch! He danced around for a minute before regaining his composure, picking up the hammer and nail again, then looked at her straight-faced. And at times it's downright painful. But you've got to be willing to go through the process if you really want to see a true change. Anything less is just a cover-up.

Sheila Walsh
I'm sure that if he really does see angels, they are sent to him for a specific purpose that is beyond our understanding. And if someone else—say, you, for example—were to see or hear angels, it might be for an altogether different purpose.

Sheila Walsh
That's where faith comes in. You trust that Someone bigger than you can handle it, and you learn that it's okay to accept help every now and then instead of always giving it.

Sheila Walsh
That's why God sends His angels to me and you, maybe. So we won't be sad anymore.

Sheila Walsh
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

Sheila Walsh
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

Sheila Walsh
'Don't forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.' It's from the Bible. Maybe your friend's an angel too. I hope you were nice to him.

Sheila Walsh
Perhaps Keith is exactly the way God intended him to be.

Sheila Walsh
…to know Keith is to love him. A lot of people seem to be especially disturbed by him, although I've never understood why. Does he make you uncomfortable? There was no hint of judgment in her question, just curiosity.

Sheila Walsh
I've seen things like this before, the woman medic said. Awed whispers, peaceful expressions when there shouldn't be one, and almost always a song. Once I even thought I heard the tune. Makes you wonder what's out there.

Sheila Walsh