Top 40 Sheila Walsh Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.”

— Sheila Walsh

2. “God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.”

— Sheila Walsh

3. “Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.”

— Sheila Walsh

4. “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. Isaiah 43:1–2.”

— Sheila Walsh

5. “In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!”

— Sheila Walsh

6. “Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”

— Sheila Walsh

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “You’re chosen by the One who will never unchoose you. You’re loved when the crowd cheers and when the lights go out and they all go home.”

— Sheila Walsh

13. “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.” Luke 6:37.”

— Sheila Walsh

14. “Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.”

— Sheila Walsh

15. “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

16. “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

17. “Sometimes God will take you to a prison to set you free.”

— Sheila Walsh

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

— Sheila Walsh

19. “It’s my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.”

— Sheila Walsh

20. “A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit’s great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.”

— Sheila Walsh

21. “Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.”

— Sheila Walsh

22. “While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we know is true no matter what we feel.”

— Sheila Walsh

23. “If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.”

— Sheila Walsh

24. “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

25. “I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.”

— Sheila Walsh

26. “We can be frozen by the chaos we feel inside instead of choosing to stand on the truth of who God’s Word says we are. We must not give our enemy such advantages. We must not live that way one moment longer. It’s time to trade what we feel for the powerful truth of who we are. How we feel can change in a moment, but who we are is eternal.”

— Sheila Walsh

27. “But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God’s most difficult promise has been kept.”

— Sheila Walsh

28. “I’ve never walked to an altar in my life. I gave my life to Christ in my bedroom as a child.”

— Sheila Walsh

29. “Real rest comes with knowing the grace of our salvation in Jesus. We don’t have to earn it.”

— Sheila Walsh

30. “I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.”

— Sheila Walsh

31. “Truth is always a turning point.”

— Sheila Walsh

32. “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

33. “When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.”

— Sheila Walsh

34. “Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don’t do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.”

— Sheila Walsh

35. “I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts... I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.”

— Sheila Walsh

36. “Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it’s true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.”

— Sheila Walsh

37. “God didn’t give us His Word to use like a weapon or some kind of Hallmark card we can pass across the fence and keep some distance. It is a weapon, but one designed for use against our enemy, not against our sisters. It is meant for encouragement, not for pat answers in the midst of real pain. Just because something is true doesn’t mean you must voice that truth in all circumstances.”

— Sheila Walsh

38. “It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.”

— Sheila Walsh

39. “You might categorize your own fear as anxiety. But while the reality of fear is different for each of us, one thing remains constant: fear robs us of joy. When fear takes center stage, we find it impossible to live in the “what is” because of the “what might be.”

— Sheila Walsh

40. “Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.”

— Sheila Walsh

41. “We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.”

— Sheila Walsh

42. “As long as I viewed someone as the enemy, I gave that person some power over my life. But as I forgave a person, I too was free.”

— Sheila Walsh