Toni Sorenson Quotes

We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do.
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Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.
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The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.
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How many of us even know what our default state of being is? Check yours at random times; reset it to positive, grateful, disciplined or faithful. Don’t ever let it idle on negative, greedy, lax or doubtful.
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Tears do not signal your weakness. Tears testify that you are alive.
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When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.
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I didn’t want to want what I wanted. I wanted to want what He wanted for me.
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When my toes are sunk into warm sand and the ocean is lapping my feet, when I breathe in the scent of salt and hear the cry of a seagull, I know that I am returned to a place of restoration. I am home.I can heal here.
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The defining moment when we finally admit, “I can’t do this alone. Its too much for me. Take it.”That’s the moment our heart cracks open, our will pours out and Christ stands ready with his arms stretched wide and his smile even wider.That’s the moment a miracle is born.
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Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.
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If we want a miracle, we’ve got to surrender all our faith.
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A great life starts and steadies with a great mind that is open to new ideas, fierce in defense of truth, and always eager to learn.
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Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master.
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Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.
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Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing imaginable, yet holding on is even harder.
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If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.
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Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.
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600Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store.
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Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.
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Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.
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Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts.
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Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.
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The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.
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People think the only time the earth is renewed is in spring. I find it’s renewed around Christmastime when hard, old hearts are softened. When children’s laughter drowns out anguish. When magic transforms the dull into something beautiful and sparkly. I find that Christmas time changes me … from the inside out, and even for a moment fills me with youth and hope again.
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We are deluded when we think that we do not have a direct line to heaven, that heaven doesn’t stand ready to help us. Oh! If only you knew the angels that walk beside you, support and protect you on the journey that you’ve chosen to walk.
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Knowing ourselves is knowing our worth in the eyes of God. That’s why the number one thought we cannot fail to think and believe is that He loves us. Always. No matter what.
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You are worth the investment so spend the time, money and resources on you. You matter. When you're strong, healthy and happy, those you love most will also benefit.
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In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.
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I know personally that when a child is abused the trajectory of that child's life is changed forever. That doesn't mean the path to happiness is impossible, but it does mean there will be detours and side roads that were never intended. Come back from those places, my friends, with lessons and compassion those on the straight road might never have the chance to learn. You are now equipped to help hurting children because you've navigated down those dark courses and made it back. Cudos to you, but also let your shoulders feel the weight of the responsibility to help others who are still lost and struggling to find their way to safety.
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Don't try to wring out all the answers before you move forward. Faith doesn't work that way. Step into the darkness and the light will appear to guide your next step. It's that first step into the unknown that stops us from progressing.
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So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision.
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The only way you’re going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you’re damned.
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Want to forget that you’re growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.
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And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities.
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Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.
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We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.
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Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident, and faithful, God is in control.
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Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up.
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No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn’t seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.
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With Christ as your partner, there is no such thing as failure, only results.
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The spirit of Christmas is found when we lift the load of others.
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Want to create the best Christmas ever? Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve your forgiveness. Hug a stranger. Pass on something that you want to keep for yourself. Spend time with the ones you love. Spend time on your knees. Decorate your life with light and laughter. Love yourself while you’re loving others. Christmas is about Christ and Christ is all about your joy and happiness.
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If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you … and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self.
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Christmas is about Christ. When we forget that, we lose the true magic of Christmas.
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The reason for the season is Christ. Let’s not forget that.
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When you’re planning the perfect Christmas … the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don’t forget the most important item on the list—Christ.
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Ingredients for a terrific Christmas: Christ. Love for one another. Forgiveness. Generosity. Time. Music. Children’s laughter. Reminising with loved ones. Remembering those who are alone. The making of new memories.
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Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That’s the real sparkle in Christmas.
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Have you ever come out of a dramatic, chaotic situation and said, “I did everything I could, and it wasn’t enough?”That’s because “everything we can” isn’t enough. It’s only enough when our everything joins with Christ’s everything.
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Some of life’s best lessons are learned through our worst mistakes.
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Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.
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Picture for a moment the scene of a son carrying wood up a hill. He is about to make the greatest sacrifice he can make. Is it Abraham’s Isaac? Or Heavenly Father’s Jehovah? It is both. It is you. YOU are also God’s child. If He required so much from them, why should He require less from us? He doesn’t. He doesn’t want a portion. He requires our all.
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A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.
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Any thought that you don’t control has the power to become toxic.
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A great life begins with a great thought.
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We tend to see what we are looking for.
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Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.
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We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar—total submission.
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Even indecision is a decision.
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Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.
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