Valerie dearborn Quotes

“Don’t just see the vision of what you want. Be the vision of what you want!”

“God desires that we be like living signs of the kingdom, to provide visual aids of what life will look like one day when the kingdom is here fully. We will not bring the Kingdom or build the kingdom, but our privilege is to live out previews of “coming attractions,” revealing what this Kingdom will look like.”

“Lack of interest in mission is not fundamentally caused by an absence of compassion or commitment, nor by lack of information or exhortation. And lack of interest in mission is not remedied by more shocking statistics, more gruesome stories or more emotionally manipulative commands to obedience. It is best remedied by intensifying peoples’ passion for Christ, so that the passions of his heart become the passions that propel our hearts.”

“To create growth in business, you must control your branding, marketing, and lead generation.”

“Focus on the objective, execute the process to get there.”

“Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.”

“If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.”

“Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.”

“Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.”