Quotes from The Keeper

“Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“I think you're the kind of man a girl can count on. You just can't let go of losing your family. You can't let yourself love because you think your heart can't handle it . . . that something bad will happen. But you're wrong. It's true . . . grief is the price for love. But hearts are made to mend. Christ can do wonders with a broken heart, if given all the pieces.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head.
No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn't be sold or taken for granted.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“Men are all alike. Grown-up children.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“Burying your talents is a grave mistake.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

“A person's eyes, they could tell you everything.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, quote from The Keeper

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“When leaders claim that God bypasses their followers and speaks directly to them, they greatly diminish all God does through the lives of believers.
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