Top 40 Tammy L. Gray Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Complaining is the front door to self-pity, which is a horribly unattractive quality, even for someone as beautiful as you.”

— Tammy L. Gray

2. “If you want us to work, you have to include me, even in the parts that aren’t so pretty. I’ve been in a relationship with walls, and masks, and fake smiles. I called it love, but it wasn’t. What we have-real, honest truth, painful or not-that’s love.”

— Tammy L. Gray

3. “All this time I thought God had forgotten me. That He had left me purposeless and broken. But He was here the whole time, and like Louie, I just had to find my way home.”

— Tammy L. Gray

4. “Like Louie, I’ve been yelling and yelling, trying to get God to see how disappointed I am with this life He forced on me. How afraid I am to trust Him again. And He’s been patiently waiting, pushing me past boundaries, asking me to be vulnerable, testing me with new challenges, all to help me see that His way is better and perfect and it’s okay that it doesn’t always make sense.”

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5. “Somehow, against all odds, my worst-case scenario has turned into a bright, wonderful future.”

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6. “You can’t truly know someone from a distance, January. Every one of us has our own set of secrets and demons and quirks. You just have to decide if it’s worth taking the time to learn them. And if you’re willing to let someone close enough to learn yours.”

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7. “Answered prayers come in many different forms, most of which we don’t recognize. This one, though, came exactly how I’d hoped.”

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8. “It’s amazing how life can change in a flash. One year. That’s all it took to transform my world. I walked into Grace Community lost, broken, and desperately searching for meaning in my life. Now I know exactly who I am.”

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9. “If we are sons and daughters of a mighty God, why do we live our life as orphans?”

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10. “Sometimes in life, we tell ourselves things that are lies. We look at a situation and believe we’re forced to remain trapped, even when doors fly open around us.”

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11. “Regret is a dead end highway. It has no capacity to move you forward.”

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12. “I fall to my knees, grip the back of my head in surrender and agony, and finally, without agenda or expectation... I pray.”

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13. “Prayer is not about changing your situation, although sometimes God grants those requests. It’s about changing your heart.”

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14. “Prayer is not a feeling. It’s a power source, and those who tap into it get far more than a warm fuzzy. They get strength to move mountains.”

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15. “Trust wasn’t just sharing secrets. It was sharing hurts, fears, and failures. And even though she’d given him her history, she’d yet to let him anywhere near her heart.”

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16. “We can’t spend our whole lives worrying about how some random person perceives us.”

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17. “When life spirals out of control, you start to grab onto everything you can. Eventually, you stop spinning, but it’s hard to say what finally grounded you. Was it the many things you experienced during the trial or just the last thing you held onto?”

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18. “And there’s nothing more painful than thinking you know someone, sharing your life with them, and then finding out it’s a lie.”

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19. “You never lost me,′ he said as he wiped the tears from my face. ‘You just had to finally open your eyes before you could find me.”

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20. “Here’s the thing about being depressed: you lose all the little joys that make life worth the effort. Laughter becomes a memory and, in some ways, a painful reminder of all you’ve lost.”

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21. “But that is why I cling to grace so fiercely. Because without it, all we have left is the anger and shame. And that isn’t how life is supposed to be lived.”

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22. “Helping Ty meant being vulnerable. It meant exposing a past she was determined to keep hidden. But conviction came a heartbeat later, as powerful and pressing as April’s plea. How could she keep the truth from Ty when it had been the very thing to set her free?”

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23. “I place my palms on his cheeks and once again thank God for this amazing, loyal, kindhearted man whom I never would have known if I’d gotten everything I asked for.”

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24. “Because sometimes it’s more about loving a person through a hard time than it is about forcing a conversion. God was going to do what He wanted to do. Meanwhile, I was convicted to use every part of this amazing ministry to show you His love.”

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25. “I’m not who they think I am, nor whom they need, but in this case I intend to pull a page from Doreen’s handbook. If this is their God’s plan, then I’m going to ride it as long as I can.”

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26. “I never cared about your last name, Ty. Only the character of the man who wore it.”

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27. “Ignoring him wasn’t working. As much as she wanted to push Asher away, as she’d been able to do with every other person in her life, she couldn’t. He’d infiltrated and claimed some part of her soul.”

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28. “Sometimes people wear indifference because it’s easier than facing the truth.”

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29. “If this summer taught me anything, it’s taught me to let go. My parents’ marriage and divorce is not my problem to solve. It’s their journey and their choices. Not mine.”

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30. “The two of us were never meant to be forever – just stepping-stones on the journey to something more.”

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31. “To admit prayer works is to admit that God exists, and admitting God exists means that the words in Sandra’s Bible are not just a collection of fanatical writings but instructions for living. And, well, there’s just too many things in that book that would change everything in my life.”

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32. “A friend once told me that no good would ever come from a lie. But I don’t agree. I think sometimes people don’t really want the truth. They want to believe the best in people and smashing that illusion feels just as cruel.”

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33. “Being loved was all I’d ever wanted. I searched for it in so many wrong places, had begged for it from people who didn’t feel the way i wanted them to. And now it’s been given to me freely by a person who still feels like a gift from heaven.”

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34. “The euphoria of new love consumed me. I couldn’t eat, could hardly sleep, and my stomach was in a perpetual state of nervous excitement.”

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35. “What if the feeling stayed exactly the same? What if it was better? What if all the hurt she’d been through these last couple of years could be turned into something beautiful?”

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36. “Sometimes it takes having your perfectly planned life detonate right in front of you to discover what you really want.”

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37. “Because in this moment, I’m not running or hiding from something I don’t want to face. This time I’m walking forward, intentionally, purposefully.”

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38. “It’s time for me to ask the hard questions. To face my own doubt and stop spending my life tossed back and forth by the wind. It’s time I stop pretending and figure out who I really want to be.”

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39. “These imperfections that you think make you unworthy, they just make you human.”

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40. “I’m an all-or-nothing guy, Darcy. I can’t exist on the surface. I’m not programmed that way.” “I understand.” “Do you? Because if we take this step. If I take this step with you, everything’s going to change. There are some doors that don’t close again once they’re opened.”

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41. “There are things in life you cannot change, no matter how much you want to.”

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42. “Forgiveness is expected between old friends, grace given without the need for apologies. It’s the backbone of relationships.”

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