Worthy of Legend Quotes

“Live the legacy, my friend. Walk worthy of His calling. Go forth boldly-and live.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“That takes a special kind of heart. To love where hatred would come so naturally and so deservedly.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“Wherever you are today, right now, be there fully. Be with the people God has put in your path. Look every moment of every day for how you can let Him use you to touch another heart. We none of us ever know what day will be our last. But we can make certain every day is worthy of being so.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“Disasters simply happen, to the just and the unjust alike. The real proof of our mettle, I think, is how we react to them. Not whether we deserved them, but what we choose do in their wake.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“And if she lost everything all over again . . . well then, she’d just have to trust that the Lord could do more with her shattered than He could with her as she was now, barely holding together.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“Lady Emily Scofield had become an expert over the years at blending into shadows. Or wallpaper. Or furniture -she could hide herself quite effectively beside a nice armoire. And crowds - crowds were the best camouflage of all.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“The world was such a harsh place - but its every shadow was offset with the light of joy.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“And when could two people really have a conversation like this in the sunshine? No, moon and starlight were made for the meeting of hearts.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“You won't have him,' she told the vengeful waters. 'Not if I have anything to say about it.'
The waters laughed upon the rocks,”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“A few years, with entries only every few months. These were clearly the musings of a woman trying to come to grips with her own life and the hand she was dealt. They were as much prayers as they were simple recordings, her own thoughts and her beseeching of the Almighty woven together in a beautiful tapestry.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“My darling. I don't love you because I need you--I need you because I love you.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“We need only to be who God made us to be. If we do that, we'll change everything for someone.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“She'd made her wonder if she really understood what love was. Made her question whether its truest form wasn't in giving it to those who deserved it -- or weeping over how one's own family didn't seem to know to give it at all -- but in loving each person however they needed, whether the loved one back or not.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“How did mercy and justice meet? With pain and sacrifice. And beauty beyond anything he's ever seen.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“They thought that the important things were the ones made of precious metals or jewels, the stories of kings and conquests. It was the everyday, though, that made the world go round.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“I could explore a theme that had begun to weigh heavily on my heart: that those who need mercy most are those who deserve it least. That those most incapable of love are the ones we must love most selflessly.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“You think getting married will mean I stop pestering you? You greatly underestimate my determination.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“But I've learned that it isn't the number of days or years that count - it's how we spend them. It isn't the distance we travel - it's what we do where we are. It isn't the adventure we stumble upon - it's the one we make.”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend

“[T]hose who need mercy most are those who deserve it least. And … even our enemies are so valuable to God that He sent Christ to die for them. Yet, how often do we focus on stopping them for our sakes rather than their own? How often to we pray *about* them instead of *for* them?”
― Roseanna M. White, Worthy of Legend