Top 100 Lynn Austin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Smooth seas don’t produce skillful sailors.”

— Lynn Austin

2. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”

— Lynn Austin

3. “We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren’t being answered. It’s the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn’t seem that way.”

— Lynn Austin

4. “The only way to grow in faith is to put your faith to the test. You must place yourself in His hands and let Him prove himself faithful. Unless you make up your mind to trust Him, you’ll never know that Yahweh is faithful.”

— Lynn Austin

5. “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

6. “When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.”

— Lynn Austin

7. “There’s no shame in changing direction, Harriet. In fact, once you’ve seen the warning signs, it’s always wise to turn around.”

— Lynn Austin

8. “No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.”

— Lynn Austin

9. “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

10. “Torah says that if you seek Yahweh your God you will find Him if you look for Him with all your heart and soul.”

— Lynn Austin

11. “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

12. “Often, it’a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we’re ready to be used and aren’t all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He’ll show us the work He has for us.”

— Lynn Austin

13. “Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.”

— Lynn Austin

14. “Love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’” Yahweh required nothing less.”

— Lynn Austin

15. “Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.”

— Lynn Austin

16. “Yes, of course Yahweh could defeat all of Judah’s enemies.” “Then why didn’t He, Grandpa?” Zechariah’s face looked sad as he shook his head. “Because our nation no longer believes in Him... and so no one bothered to ask Him to.”

— Lynn Austin

17. “The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It’s as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.”

— Lynn Austin

18. “Can’t never go by your feelings. Got to go by the word of the Lord.”

— Lynn Austin

19. “It’s too easy to believe in our own importance when we’re surrounded by our own creations all day.”

— Lynn Austin

20. “We were meant to love people, and we need to accept their love in return. Otherwise, we ain’t really living.”

— Lynn Austin

21. “God has His reasons for allowing this great upheaval. Maybe He’s asking us to join the fight against evil and help redeem this fallen world.” “I don’t have enough faith for this, Papa.” “None of us do. All we can do is ask Him each day what He wants us to do.” She nodded, keeping her tears at bay.”

— Lynn Austin

22. “Guard your heart, son,” Eli said in a hushed voice. “That’s what God looks at – your heart. Most folks look at the outside things, like the color of your skin. But God looks at your heart.”

— Lynn Austin

23. “Prayer isn’t just about asking for things. It’s taking time to hear what God is saying, too, just like any good conversation. Once we finally stop talking and demanding and begging for things, it’s easier to hear what God is trying to say to us.”

— Lynn Austin

24. “Everyone had forgotten her. But that’s the way Penny was – so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma’s house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people’s lives as if watching a movie.”

— Lynn Austin

25. “She loved him, and her heart was breaking. If she had known how much it hurt to love someone, she never would have given away her heart. But it wasn’t a question of giving as much as falling.”

— Lynn Austin

26. “Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”

— Lynn Austin

27. “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

28. “Jerusalem’s wall is real, but it’s also symbolic,” he said. “In a way, we destroyed the wall ourselves by relying on idols instead of on God. We destroyed it by desecrating His Sabbaths. By ignoring the laws He gave us, laws that teach us how to live. These ruins are a picture of what we did to our relationship with the Almighty One – we demolished it. Now it’s time to rebuild what our sins have destroyed.”

— Lynn Austin

29. “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

30. “I would sooner become a spinster than spend a lifetime with a boring, unimaginative man.”

— Lynn Austin

31. “So often I have felt alone in my journey, yet I’ve been afraid to let anyone see my fear and weakness.”

— Lynn Austin

32. “Depression, I’ve learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.”

— Lynn Austin

33. “I do not believe in witches, but if I did, I’d swear you are one.”

— Lynn Austin

34. “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

35. “But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they’ll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You’re giving up being a pastor, but I’m not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.”

— Lynn Austin

36. “A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn’t quit until the job is done.”

— Lynn Austin

37. “As long as we have breath we can hope, can’t we?”

— Lynn Austin

38. “One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.”

— Lynn Austin

39. “Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.”

— Lynn Austin

40. “You can’t serve God by acting contrary to His nature.”

— Lynn Austin

41. “I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.”

— Lynn Austin

42. “All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby’s face to know God existed.”

— Lynn Austin

43. “Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He’s really the closest.”

— Lynn Austin

44. “All these troubles you’ve been having aren’t a punishment from God. He wants to use them to draw you closer to himself.”

— Lynn Austin

45. “Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift...”

— Lynn Austin

46. “Our faith often grows stronger when we have to defend our beliefs, the same way that patriotism flowers and blooms when our country is threatened.”

— Lynn Austin

47. “He had lived to please himself instead of God all those years, giving little more than lip service to His holy laws. And now when Zechariah cried out to God, his numberless sins swallowed up his prayers before they reached heaven. His guilt filled the yawning gulf between him and God.”

— Lynn Austin

48. “As long as you continue to seek Him, son, your love will continue to grow. And as you express your love for Him through obedience, He’ll reveal more of himself to you.”

— Lynn Austin

49. “Our daughters aren’t the same people we are, nor are they extensions of ourselves. They are unique individuals in God’s eyes, responsible to Him for the choices they make, not to their mothers.”

— Lynn Austin

50. “Today Rosa’s little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.”

— Lynn Austin