Top 60 Joanna Davidson Politano Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There are many good days that outweigh the bad. And besides, imaginations are transportable. They even follow one into poverty.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

2. “Make your heart a deep well of the Almighty by saturating yourself in his presence, and your words will come out drenched in him no matter what you say. I can promise you, no matter how many brilliant things you have to say, he has better ones.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

3. “The best fruit arises from a hostile environment – harsh winters, dry soil, and unrelenting heat from the sun deepen a grape’s flavor and heighten its sweetness. Bearable conditions bring only mediocre fruit. – Notebook of a viticulturist.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

4. “Matched souls always find their way back to one another, for they seek refuse in the same place.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

5. “Do away with petty criticisms and subtle corrections, and leave the fixing of your spouse to God. It frees you up to simply love and enjoy them, which will prove a greater influence in the end.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

6. “The weakest version of the real you is stronger than the best imitation of someone else.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

7. “We’re all of us told to walk in the light, but we don’t. We simply wish to drag the light over to where we’re already standing, so we may better see the path we’ve set out for ourselves.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

8. “I’ve learned that a true hero is not an extraordinary man. He may not impress the world, but he so greatly changes hers. That makes him utterly heroic indeed.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

9. “Sovereignty – The sovereignty of God is a thing of utter beauty. But like any good piece of art, to fully appreciate its magnitude, one must step back and drink it in as a whole, seeing how the brushstrokes of little everyday occurrences all combine to create a larger picture. Blessed are those who have the opportunity to do so this side of heaven.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

10. “Books are essential nourishment to the mind.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

11. “Being created in God’s image means we bear traces of him. He is our truest identity.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

12. “I always had the ability to help you, you know. I was merely waiting for you to ask. It is as I said – your enemy has power, but I have more.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

13. “It’s allowable to judge a lady by her dress, for it is how she chose to express herself to strangers before she speaks a word to them.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

14. “Do not be afraid to marry a man who’s firmly planted to earth, for he is the flagpole to your flag – not restricting, but anchoring, so that you may be free to fly. In return, you shall decorate the dull gray metal of his life forevermore.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

15. “Lean into it, strengthen it, fan that desire into flames and never let it go out. Allow yourself to feel that ache fully, driving you on until you’ve found the sort of true, authentic love that few truly have.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

16. “She wore bright colors and flowers in her hair on ordinary days because life itself, the fleeting, precious gift, was her special occasion.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

17. “Too often we cut away essential elements of ourselves to fit into a mold and discover those elements were vital to who we are, and our improvements have only made us more ordinary.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

18. “Shame is reserved for those who disappoint God, not people.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

19. “And the maiden found her escape in books, the words created by the pen of some stranger who would creep into her mind and rearrange the furniture.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

20. “Dreams are lovely little diversions for tired minds, but we must at some point wake up and live in the splendid real world, pursuing things that are eternal and lasting, significant and very uniquely us.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

21. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Saint Augustine of Hippo.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

22. “Sometimes it’s a wonder God knows what to do with all our requests.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

23. “I think I know the perfect prayer.” I twirled a dandelion before my face and closed my eyes. “God, give me exactly what I would ask for if I knew everything you know.” His eyes sparkled in response. “Brilliant.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

24. “A good book will enable you to both lose yourself and find yourself.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

25. “God, give me exactly what I would ask for if I knew everything you know.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

26. “There’s a wonderful charm to ordinary, everyday moments, and the people who remain through them.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

27. “No one understood her love of reading, but to Lady Jayne, fiction was far better than real life – it always had to make sense, and real life seldom did.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

28. “The secret to finding true love is not in discovering someone who will give it to you but learning how to give it.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

29. “Thank you, Father. My soft heart gushed with praise. Thank you for bringing me to a helpless state so I might witness what you wanted to do.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

30. “Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal life and pretending that you, for one liberating moment, will also become whole and healthy and wonderfully normal by the end.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

31. “Perhaps it’s a risk, but I’m willing to take it. You see, I’ve just asked God for help in providing for my family, and I’m not about to go wasting his solution.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

32. “By his grace, before I was even ready for it, I had been made a reflection of God, the ultimate restorer.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

33. “Rich is the man who sees value in every person, even if there is none to be found.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

34. “Quite often, villains of one story were heroes in another.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

35. “Even without meeting a person, we can determine a lot about her by looking at the people she allows into her life.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

36. “You don’t merely sell rags. You find value in what is cast aside and bring it back to life, make it valuable again. Give it a piece of your beauty. That’s powerful, Raina.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

37. “There is no such thing as hopeless cases. Only those who have lost hope.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

38. “When she accepted her own uniqueness, it was freeing. She was able to shift her effort from fitting in to improving who she actually was to begin with.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

39. “For a writer, revenge was best saved for an empty notebook where the pen was, indeed, a mighty weapon against her foes.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

40. “Then, with my grief at its peak, I bled my pain onto the page, spreading its black inkiness in perfect swooping letters. Raw, concise phrases reviewed the true hurt of fresh loss. How cleansing to cut one’s own heart open and lay it on the page. Cleansing, yet terrifying. These were the feelings most people worked to hide from the outside world – even loved ones who might sympathize. And her I was, setting them down in black and white, ready to ship into a world of strangers who did not know me.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

41. “What good’s a candle out in pure daylight, then? You tell me that.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

42. “How was one to answer these meaningless questions, really? ‘A fine day today, is it not, sir? How was your walk? I trust you are in good health this morning.’ He should tell them the day was terrible, he had witnessed a murder, and he’d walked to the moon, just to see what they would do.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

43. “A few told snippets of her stories or described the healing touch of her hand, but none knew anything about the girl herself. How amazing, how humble, was this girl who broke herself into a million pieces and distributed them to anyone who had need.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

44. “Within that worn-down body resided a spark of instinctual nurturing. She was a mother – or had been once. And though her mind was shuttered, her heart knew how to mother still.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

45. “He always knew the exact second it was time to rescue my heart from the heaviness of life. He could swim deep with me for long minutes, delving into important conversations on humanity and relationships, then draw me back up to skim the sun-dappled surface when my thoughts became too heavy.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

46. “Have a good cry into a cup of tea and come back in an hour.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

47. “My dear Aurelie, if you fit into this world, this very broken, selfish place, it would be you who was the wrong size.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

48. “You’ve given people permission to be themselves – whatever odd collection of cracks and fissures and paint smears they have. There’s true freedom in that.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

49. “My music had begun to splinter apart, as if Hurstwell’s shadows had come home with me, magnifying my uncertainty with each passing hour.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano

50. “That’s what we all were, wasn’t it? Created beings who bore traces of their Creator, each with a different piece of his nature augmented in order to show the world who he was.”

— Joanna Davidson Politano