Victoria Lynn Quotes

“You need to be careful, but you also need to relax and trust that God will work it out.”

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“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder of the oppression that had become normal...”

Government Pain Family Friends Oppression Reminders Government Corruption Reminder

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“Traveling the roads alone was a temptation for evil”

Life Evil Journey Travel Temptation Journeys

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“Sometimes Violet envied her grandmother’s empty mind, her quickness to forget, and the ease with which she returned to a peaceful state. It was almost as if the disease didn’t allow anything but good thoughts to remain in her mind. Any trauma and evil seemed to vanish as soon as it could.”

Evil Thoughts Trauma Good Thoughts Dementia Minds Bad Thoughts

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“When people who supported her were scarce, it was the animals that comforted her, soothed her, and joined in her prayers as she mucked out the stalls.”

People Prayer Comfort Animals Prayers

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“The work had been petty, small for a man like him, tasks that most grown men would disdain to touch, but he did it with a willing heart...”

Work Work Ethic

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“It was the most troubling and infuriating feeling in the world to have nothing to do...”

Purpose Work Boredom

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“A man had to discover his purpose in life sooner rather than later. And while his journey might be a bit harder than most, and he had been set back by the unfortunate accident that had wiped his memory, he would work twice as hard to achieve a place in this world. Without that, he had nothing to offer her. And nothing was not something any man should bring to the table.”

Life Purpose Work Discovery Memory Work Hard

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“Her head had taken to constantly pounding, and despite the massive amount of work to be done, all she felt like doing was curling up on her little mat by the fire and falling asleep for enough hours to bring her back to her normal, cheerful, rested self. But every time her head hit the pillow, no sleep came for the worrying. No matter how hard she tried, she always tossed and turned, nervous, anxious, and overwhelmed at the possibilities of the dangers that presented themselves at every corner.”

Work Worry Anxiety Overwhelmed

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“Hope filled his restless and broken heart. He lifted his battered, shameful soul and offered it. Take me, Jesus. Cleanse me. I believe.”

Soul Hope Jesus Shame Broken Heart Rest Restless Heart Battered Soul Shameful Soul

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“Fear equaled power. Elgon now knew that kindness equaled loyalty, and he would fight every fiery bone in his body to see justice done.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Kindness Right And Wrong Attitude Toward Life

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“If only someone could step up and make the change that was needed.”

Change

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“Her mind, already frail and broken, had been wandering, fluttering about like a lost bird inside a house, unable to free itself and running into the windows in desperate hope of escape.”

Mind Minds Frail And Broken Lost Birds

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“Beauty blooms when you are true to who God created you to be.”

Inspirational God Truth Faith Beauty True Self

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“So much of her life and the lives of those around her—her family, friends, and the other villagers—had been adversely affected by a kingsman in some way. How would she explain and keep this from hurting herself or those whom she dearly loved?”

Love Family

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“Loyalty cannot be bought, and integrity should not be sacrificed at the hand of tyranny.”

Fantasy Ya Medieval

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“Doing the right thing did not always mean it was done without fear.”

Fear Decisions

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“She didn’t want to leave him in the dark on the matter, but she also didn’t want to entrust him with a secret that he either did not want or, at the very least, did not ask for…one that would put him in danger.”

Danger Decisions

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“There were so many obstacles and perceived dangers around every corner, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Hadn’t the Lord said to “love your enemies”?”

Danger Obstacles Love Your Enemies

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“The Lord has a plan.”

God Plans Plan Jeremiah 29 11 The Lord God

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“[O]ffering a prayer was never an idle gesture.”

Prayer Praying Pray Prayer Request

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“Words did not need to be spoken to feel the trepidation and fear that pervaded the atmosphere.”

Fear Words Trepidation

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“Why did trust feel like a mountain to climb?”

This Life Of Mine

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“Lord, it hurts.” She whimpered softly. “When will it end?”

Pain Hurt Comfort

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“She hadn’t thought it could be an option to live without the pain she carried on a daily basis. She shook her head and cut off her train of thought. It was too much to think about, and she would much rather leave those memories buried deep inside, walled within her emotional fortress. It hurt less that way.”

Pain Hurt Memories Emotion Emotions Trauma Burdens

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“Their faces blurred in his sight. Combining, and then morphing back into individuals. Swirling, spinning, dancing the night away.”

Faces Memories Dreams Dancing

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“They had grown up the best of friends, and seeing him cut down at such a young age, never to recover fully and with many of his life's dreams impossible…it had destroyed a small part of her heart.”

Pain Dreams Broken Dreams

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“[S]he heard his moans in the middle of the night, the strangling gasps, as if his memory, lost to him in life, somehow came back to haunt his sleep, like a vicious ghost clinging to a life it could no longer have.”

Life Lost Memories Loss Dreams Ghosts Haunting The Past Haunted Nights

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“...suddenly flashes of scenes poured through his mind. Memories. Dreams. Dreams within a dream.”

Dream Memories Dreams Memory

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“The darkness was overwhelming, but he felt as though he had succumbed to it so long, he couldn’t fight his way back again. But the pain…the crushing weight of it kept nagging at him, dragging him back into the light. He didn’t want to return. In the depths of the darkness, there was no pain. Nothing. Just the dark. And the quiet.”

Pain Dark Darkness Nothingness

Author:Victoria Lynn

“There wasn’t much in him that wanted to hold onto the light. It was easier to let it slip farther and farther away. So, he let it go and sank back again into the depths.”

Light Dark Darkness

Author:Victoria Lynn

“You were a vessel for the wrong thing. The devil’s purpose is great, but Mine is greater. My blood speaks louder. My light shines bright enough to purge the darkness. Do you believe that My blood is strong enough? Sacrificed for you. Do you believe?”

God Light Purpose Belief Darkness Sacrifice

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“Light collided with the darkness and won in an instant.”

Light Darkness Battle

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“To be in the dirt, helpless against the forces of evil, and still carry a torch within you…that was a capacity for courage which he desperately wished for. What was it that could have a person on the brink of the most terrible moment of their life, but they still stood, unwavering in the face of such evil?”

Light Evil Defiance

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“Your peace you gave us Your heart divine, Your blood was spilled What a mighty prize. Grant us now Thy tender mercy, Your peace surrounds us now. Let every heart, tongue and nation, Before you Jesus, bow. Peace peace, You brought us peace Let us dwell at Your table, On what You provide we feast Take our hand in this brokenness Hold us gently oh Lord We pray and ask you for Your presence Lead us through this wilderness.”

God Jesus Peace Christ Jesus Christ Hymns Hymn

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“Animals were highly sensitive, and when they were at peace, it took all of the panic from her soul and settled her into the same rhythm. If he had nothing to fear, neither did she.”

Peace Animals

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