Judith Pella > Quotes

“... I will say this. Marriage is work. It's hard work. Harder than anything else you'll ever do. Believe me, I know. And do you want to know why?'
James nodded and Ben Latrobe leaned forward as if to impart a deep, mysterious secret. 'Because marriage isn't about the wedding or the wedding trip afterward. It isn't about cozy nights spent in each other's arms or the way she makes you feel when she smiles. Oh, those things all have a part in it, but a very minor one. No, James, marriage is about sticking it out when it isn't so nice. Marriage is being there to pick up the pieces when your perfect world falls apart. It's seeing the mess you've made of things and being willing to work through it until you have created something better than you had before. It's listening to her fears, her troubles, and concerns. It's eating meals that don't taste as good as those your mother fixed, enduring her temperamental outburts and tears, and not giving up when things get hard.'
Latrobe paused for a moment and a frown lined his face where the smile had been only moments before. 'True love is standing by your mate when his health fails, along with his business.' ... 'It's knowing that the world goes on and you can depend on each other even when everything else around you lies in ruins at your feet...”
― Judith Pella Tracie Peterson

“All must answer for their deeds eventually,”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.”
― Judith Pella, A House Divided

“He was nothing without his family. His causes were meaningless without his family.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“believe God can use such experiences to change men.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“think His forgiveness is sometimes more painful than to be beaten and tortured.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“Each trial we experience, each of life’s scars, can only mature us if we allow them to do so,”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“yourself in such a manner?”
― Judith Pella, Separate Roads

“Women can often endure a great deal more than they give themselves credit for,”
― Judith Pella, A Hope Beyond

“But faith often helps cushion the blow of our mistakes, and God is always there to help us pick up the pieces.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“...one day you will see how, when we place our lives in God's hands, each bump, each seemingly wrong turn, even each climb to the heights, is used by God to weave a beautiful pattern. We can't always discern the shape of the pattern when we are in the midst of it, but it is still there and it wil be beautiful. That is a promise he makes to believers.”
― Judith Pella, Heirs of the Motherland

“Either way, it can be self-defeating to constantly try to please other people. You’ll never be able to do”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“our lives are like a big chunk of marble, and the sculpting process is long and tedious. Each little chip doesn’t amount to much, but, chip by chip, it will eventually turn into a beautiful work of art. The saddest thing would be for the sculptor to tire of the”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“Usko on minun leipäni, ja Jumala on katto minun pääni päällä.”
― Judith Pella, Grayfox: A Companion Reader to the Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister

“Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“Faith, my dear son, doesn’t keep us from doing stupid things.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“Don’t condemn what another sees as perfection, just because it doesn’t fit your ideals. You want that respect from them, so be the first to give it when considering their position.” With”
― Judith Pella, Ties That Bind

“You can have faith for the good things it does for you—’tis better than no faith at all. But don’t measure faith by outward signs, not by what it does, nor by what the faithful do.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“faith isn’t some magic pill you take to have eternal good luck.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“consistent reason for faith—because God is God. Only He is trustworthy.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“A threefold cord is not easily broken.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“temperatures of forty below zero.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“Nothing but good came of that. It’s how God always seemed to care for us.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“I didn't say you weren't, but moving on the hope that some man will hire you seems a bit risky.'

'No more so than diggin' in the dirt for your dreams—only to find it's your grave you've been diggin'.”
― Judith Pella

“First you must be able to trust the one who gave that promise.”
― Judith Pella, Passage Into Light

“He threw his head back and laughed, but there was a quality of defeat in the tone that drained it of its mirth. To lay down his past would never be accomplished without an equal-and painful-laying down of pride.

As much as she despised James in this moment, perhaps the words were too close to the truth for her to respond with anything but contrition. Yet that was a step she was unwilling to take.”
― Judith Pella, The Stonewycke Trilogy

“We have a God who brings joy to those who place their faith in Him.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“There will always be someone out there demanding something different from you.”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning

“Don’t you know that a little bit of faith can move a mountain?”
― Judith Pella, White Nights, Red Morning