Jill Scott Quotes

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

My baby is the joy in my life.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

The doctors told me I could never have kids, but God blessed me anyway.

I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Courage. By beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in God, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.