Top 120 Jody Hedlund Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m not alone. God’s presence is with me wherever I go.”

— Jody Hedlund

2. “Ofttimes we cannot change the entire direction of a route already set in motion. But we can do our small part to shift the path one degree at a time.”

— Jody Hedlund

3. “I have fallen so deeply in love with you that I cannot climb out, no matter how hard I’ve tried. I have finally concluded I cannot live or breathe at the prospect of a future without you in it.”

— Jody Hedlund

4. “God is the giver of life. And He’s also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.”

— Jody Hedlund

5. “Courage is not the absence of fear but the determination to persevere when circumstances are at their worst.”

— Jody Hedlund

6. “Iron sharpens iron,” I quoted the old proverb. “If she is made of fine silk and you of iron, she will smother you. Or perhaps you will shred her.”

— Jody Hedlund

7. “Don’t get stuck, Mercy. Don’t get stuck thinking you don’t matter or you’re not important enough. I know for people like us who come from lowly backgrounds, we all too often accept our place at the bottom and think that’s where we belong. But that’s just not true. God didn’t create some people to be better than others. He created everyone to have equal value.”

— Jody Hedlund

8. “His words were like a soothing balm covering over the voices inside always taunting she’d never be good enough. He’d accepted her in spite of her mistakes. He approved of what she’d done. And he believed she was capable.”

— Jody Hedlund

9. “No one’s a lost cause. You have just as much potential as anyone else.”

— Jody Hedlund

10. “God doesn’t expect us to be perfect women or perfect missionaries. Rather, He wants us to learn to lean upon Him more, to let Him be our help during those stormy blasts.”

— Jody Hedlund

11. “There are actually some men in the world who care more about a women’s character than her physical appearance.”

— Jody Hedlund

12. “She’d made a wreck of things, but thankfully God could take the wreckage and turn it into something beautiful.”

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13. “What had she gotten herself into?”

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14. “We’re human. We break things. It’s what we do with the brokenness that counts.”

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15. “Tis often the rarity that makes something so precious, wouldn’t you say? If I were to have such extravagance daily then I might begin to think the jewels and the praise are ordinary rather than treasure them as I do.”

— Jody Hedlund

16. “Marriage doesn’t put an end to one’s ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I’ve seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.”

— Jody Hedlund

17. “My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.”

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18. “It was as if she’d been stuck her entire life in a tiny overcrowded corner that had defined her existence, ignorant of the spacious world that existed beyond her.”

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19. “Guilt is a powerful taskmaster. It can make you do many foolish things that you’ll later regret.”

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20. “But I believe one act of courage has the power to clear the path for more.”

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21. “If only I’d realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I’d been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God.”

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22. “God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.”

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23. “The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.”

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24. “Maybe we should stop looking at why God doesn’t answer every prayer the way we think He should. But instead we should count it a blessing that He hears our prayers at all.”

— Jody Hedlund

25. “Just because the whole world changes its opinion about something doesn’t mean God changes his.”

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26. “But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.”

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27. “God had indeed answered our prayers in a way we’d never been able to envision on our own.”

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28. “I realized then, this connection with him would be difficult to cut loose, that his presence was weaving into the tapestry of my life, and that I had no wish to untangle the woven strands any more than I wished to release his hold on my hand.”

— Jody Hedlund

29. “Always remember, our responsibility is to God for these children. We bear in mind One died for them as for the children of the rich and happy.”

— Jody Hedlund

30. “Even so, I was growing more anxious to make my escape and fly like an arrow as far away as I could. But I’d made a deal with Collin, and I couldn’t break it after just one day, could I?”

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31. “Please God, I prayed, I want to do the right thing this time. I am pledging a loyal heart to You first, to living with honor and integrity, rather than living to please men.”

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32. “I couldn’t change it. Couldn’t hide it. Couldn’t deny it. I was unique and beautiful in my own way.”

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33. “I’ve been nothing but trouble to everyone, even the Lord himself.”

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34. “Commitment was easy when everything was going well. But it counted most when things were falling apart.”

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35. “I meant my vow to you. And I will choose to love and cherish you unto death.”

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36. “But one by one she’d been cutting away the tangle of propriety so that with each thread she cut loose, she was slowly finding the freedom to be herself and not someone else’s version of who she ought to be.”

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37. “Sometimes we have to take risks, even put our lives in jeopardy to do what’s right.”

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38. “Alex let out a sigh, pushing down a swell of jealousy. He didn’t want Michael to like Tessa so much. His brother’s affection would only complicate matters when Alex finally swept Tessa off her feet.”

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39. “His heart opened wide with the need to acknowledge not only the existence of God but also the existence of a merciful and loving God. He’d been an undeserving wretch, but God had saved him – not only from the clutches of dangers, toils, and snares, but from the very brink of hell itself.”

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40. “Whether highborn and wealthy or lowborn and poor, the plague of selfishness could afflict us all. Was it possible, no matter our status, that we had to choose how to live? For ourselves or for others?”

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41. “Besides, every woman appreciates when a man takes the time and effort to demonstrate his love, not for what he can get out of it but for what he can give.”

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42. “You’re following the Lord wholeheartedly, yet you’re missing out on the forgiveness part. God’s not just in the business of saving us from our sins. He’s also in the business of forgiving those sins and putting them as far as the east is from the west.”

— Jody Hedlund

43. “This man was... a man who could see past disappointment and lost dreams in order to still find hope and joy in living.”

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44. “But if I stopped hiding the real me – if I accepted and embraced everything about myself, including the mark on my skin – then I’d take the first step in showing others that they had nothing to fear from me.”

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45. “I guess I figured that as long as I was with people I loved, I was home. It didn’t matter where we were or what kind of place we lived in. We had each other and that was enough.”

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46. “He wiped his thumb across the trail of her tears. “If I could, I would get the whole world for you.”

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47. “I have searched far and wide... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires.”

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48. “Maybe that’s why God had placed the angel at the Garden of Eden – to keep people away from the Tree of Life? Not to prevent them from having something good, but to protect them from something that had the potential to ultimately destroy the world?”

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49. “I don’t know what my pathetic life is going to look like now, but I nee you to help me survive.”

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50. “Would not the world be a better place if a man simply lived in humility and loved his brother or sister as himself, regardless of one’s birth?”

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