Fight the New Drug

17 Elizabeth Smart Quotes That Are A Beacon Of Light In A World Filled With Too Much Despair

<br /> Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at the age of 14. For nine months, she lived in a hell of unimaginable terror. Today she has an empowering message of healing and recovery that will inspire all of us. 
Mélanie Berliet
August 21, 2016
“The man who kidnapped and raped me was a manipulative, antisocial, and narcissistic pedophile. He was not clinically psychotic or delusional. He was just an evil man.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Pedophile, Evil
“I think there are far more miracles in our lives than we may ever realize. Like flickers of light among the darkness, they remind us that God is there and that He cares.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: God, Miracles, Hope, God Cares
“The realization that my family would still love me proved to be the turning point. In fact, it proved to be the most important moment throughout my entire nine-month ordeal.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Family, Surviving Abuse
“This experience reminded me once again that God had not deserted me, that He was aware of my suffering and loneliness. And that assurance gave me hope. It helped me to keep my faith and gave me the strength that I needed to go on.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Family, Surviving Abuse, God, strength, Keep Fighting for Love
“Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Music, Feelings
“All of these things have helped me. But ultimately, to get better, I simply made a choice.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Make The Choice, How To Get Better
“I resolved that whenever I might have any doubts or moments of weakness— and I knew that they would come — I would tell myself: Elizabeth, you have everything back now! But you remember all those hard times, right? And because you remember all those hard times, you can remember the depth of your gratitude.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: Weakness, Your Strength, Overcoming Abuse
“Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: grateful
“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind Heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my worth will never be diminished. Faith that God knows how I feel and that I can depend on him to help me through it all. I believe that God not only suffered for me, but that He will make everything up to me in His own time and His own way. That gives me the peace I need to feel like justice will win out in the end.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Faith, God
“I can't say that he would not have gone out and kidnapped me had he not looked at pornography. All I know is that pornography made my living hell worse.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Elizabeth Smart Speaks For The First Time About Pornography's Role In Her Abduction
Tagged: Fight The New Drug, Pornography, Sexual Abuse
“After I had been raped and brutalized, there was something new inside my soul. There was a burning now inside me, a fierce determination that no matter what I had to do, I was going to live!”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Chris Stewart, My Story
Tagged: Rape, Recovery, Inner Strength
“Feeling sorry for yourself that’s only allowing them more control, more power, and to steal more of your life from you. Don’t you dare give them another second of your life.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My story | Elizabeth Smart | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Tagged: Recovery, Take Back Your Life
“It makes me sick that these things happen. It makes me sick that there are people out there that don’t have a conscience. That don’t care. That are just heartless…But seeing people come home…I think it’s proof that there are miracles”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart Shares the Best Advice She’s Ever Received With TheBlaze
Tagged: Conscience, Miracles
“I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact definition of despair is, but if it is feeling as if your life is over, as if there’s no point to continue because no matter what happens, you will never be accepted or happy again, then despair is what I felt.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: Despair, Rape, Suffering, Family
“Those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: Despair, voice
“Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: Life, Fate, Take Back Your Life
“What I felt is not uncommon among victims of rape or abuse. Rape is such a violation; the feeling of worthlessness is almost universal. It wasn’t my fault. But I was broken. No one would want me anymore.”
— Elizabeth A. Smart, My Story
Tagged: Rape, Abuse, surviving