Jennifer Q. Hunt > Quotes

“But love doesn't mean shielding the one you love from all pain and heartache and hardship. It means being there with them when you can and trusting them to God when you can't.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“We believe that when Jesus died on the cross, He took on all the sin, and all the wrath of God for that sin, and now offers grace and forgiveness to those who in faith receive Him and His gift of eternal life. And when you believe that, Cal, when that’s real in your soul, then you can show grace and forgiveness to other people, too.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Great Waters

“He noticed she didn’t wipe the fork on her napkin after he handed it back to her, just began eating.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“Like the song, it both offended and mesmerized her. All of this, foreign to anything she’d ever heard at church or experienced in life, sounded too fantastic to be real, yet these people truly believed it. More, they seemed to be, however imperfectly, living it. Davis had certainly given his late wife sacrificial love even when she did not reciprocate. Arilee’s respect for Adam and his devotion to her were bolstering them through the pain of their infertility.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“Quiet and loneliness were twin rails down which the freight car of her regrets could come hurtling.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, In the Night Season

“Gentlemen, I have kept and will keep your rules as carefully as I am able, but I will not transgress the law of God for the rules of man.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“What a beautiful way to redeem a very hard day—”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“I hope you’re OK with apple—” “Adam, I can’t date you.” “Wow, if you’re that much against apple, I’ll see if she can find some other flavor.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“You would be wise, gentlemen, not to sever a relationship you will need in the future. Frankly, I am ashamed for you, that you are reviewing my husband’s worthiness to graduate rather than rewarding him for saving a life through knowledge and skill he gained primarily through his personal study and observation.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“She touched her lips, remembering their sweet kiss. How she would treasure the memory of it for the rest of her days. But if she really did care for him, she’d set him free now. Free to find a girl not jaded by years of loss, not tainted with dark family secrets, not scarred inside and out.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“And if I have to understand God, then it is my own mind I worship, and if I have to control Him, it’s my own will I worship, and if I have to feel Him, it’s my emotions I worship. But if I only have to love and obey Him, then I worship Him in spirit and in truth, and in worshiping Him I have life.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Some Through the Fire

“Arilee told me to ask you . . . that is, things between us, maybe you’ve noticed—” Davis snorted. “Helen Keller coulda noticed by now.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“I actually admire you a great deal, but I often express it by being surprised and critical of your few imperfections rather than appreciative of your manifold strengths.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“What do you mean you’ve never been up there?” “My person has not walked up those steps and entered that space.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“This wasn’t really a date. He wasn’t on a date with Margaret Rose Woodhouse. They were grabbing a bite to eat after an errand. He glanced at her, took a sip of his water, and hid behind the menu again.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“Bless this food to our bodies and our bodies to Thy service, O Lord.” But he studied her as he prayed, and she opened her eyes a second too soon and caught him. To cover his embarrassment, he took a large bite of his chicken pot pie. It burned his tongue, and his eyes watered.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“But the choice he faced, the only choice he was able to make—would he let the darkness overtake his own soul, or would he dwell in the light? In Christ. "You are right." Cal said at last to the old priest, voice hoarse. "I know to much truth to be living like I am.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, In the Night Season

“Sounds fun. I’d gladly be Becky Thatcher to your Tom Sawyer.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“But remember, His goodness is Who He is, not merely a gift He gives or a miracle He performs.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“Afterward, she sat on the stairs, staring at “When I did first impart my love to you” far longer than a woman responsible for making Christmas for two kids and two brothers had any right to sit.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“The real key to remaining faithful to one's spouse is first being faithful to the Lord.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“It’s my brother. Brax.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“I wouldn’t give up my son for you. And Arilee would have died herself to protect A.J.—but she wouldn’t sacrifice him for anyone. “I can’t comprehend the Gospel, Brax, because the Gospel is that God chose to give up His Son for his enemies. It’s not even like me sacrificing my son for you. It’s like me sacrificing my son for those sick Klansmen who came here tonight to harm us. The Father offers to redeem and adopt the very ones who occasioned His Son’s death. I can’t fathom the love of God.” Brax kept crying. Davis sat down next to him on the ground.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“Because maybe she’d never loved or been loved when it didn’t make sense, and that was something no charity institution could deliver.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Every Life Treasured

“Lord, I know we aren’t exactly on speaking terms, and I never intend to marry again, but I would make an exception if Davis Rutledge ever became free.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways

“Forgiving others is one way we show we love them.” Meg glanced up at him, obviously aware he’d been standing there for this conversation. “I’m going to forgive my first mama,” Macy said matter-of-factly. “I’ll tell her when I see her in heaven.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“Do Adam and Arilee act condescending because they have college degrees?” He quirked his eyebrow at her. “Of course not. You’ve met them. Do they seem the sort stuck on their own importance?” “No, but I can’t figure out where you got this idea that you are of disappointing intelligence when everything I see points to the opposite.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, All Now Mysterious

“I’m worried about what else is in there.” “Several dozen cockroaches. I wish I was exaggerating.” “Let’s just burn the house down.”
― Jennifer Q. Hunt, Through Thorny Ways