Cathy Gohlke > Quotes

“What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It's no good being fearful. Worry won't change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

“There are things I want in life - things I need, things I mean to do,' Olivia went on. 'I just don't know what they are.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Each morning, when we wake—if we wake—we pick up whatever it is we’ve been given to carry for that day, with the sweet Lord Jesus in the yoke beside us to tote the load. Each night we lay it down, giving it into God’s hands. If it’s still there in the morning, we pick it up and begin again. If the burden is gone or if there is something different, we know where to start.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

“How can we come to church and sing our hymns and pray our prayers and spit on the very creation God made above every other living thing on this earth?”
― Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

“Joy is the gift of God, and you are His child. He loves you so. He rejoices over you with singing!”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“The Church has only one altar, the altar of the Almighty . . . before which all creatures must kneel. . . . He who seeks anything other than this must keep away; he cannot join us in the house of God. . . . The Church has only one pulpit, and from that pulpit faith in God will be preached, and no other faith, and no other will than the will of God, however well-intentioned.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“prayer from schools? Stripping crucifixes from walls? That would be like taking down the Ten Commandments in the United States. I’ve never been a churchgoer, but I can’t imagine such a thing happening. The churches, even the people who aren’t churchgoers, would never stand for having their rights stripped away like that.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Does your hate make you happy, my dear, or does it continually eat through you, a cancer of its own making? Does the constant fueling of that angry fire not exhaust you and take away from living the wonderful life you’ve been given?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

“You can fool some of the people some of the time—but you’d best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“What worried him most was something Dietrich had mentioned observing during his visit to America—the way Americans treated Negroes. Not so different in some ways than German citizens treated Jews at the beginning. If Americans treat our citizens in such a way, will they step up to the plate to protect their own or the world’s Jews? He wasn’t sure.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“Personal belief system? Is that the problem? That we've all just assumed that truth is what we individually believe? Or is it a collective assumption? That the truth for Germany-and the truth for Britain and Poland and the US- is their own, regardless of how it affects others? Is there no truth- no universal truth- that applies to everyone?”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“When the Church stops standing for Jews- for anyone- then we stop being the church. Grace is costly-it took the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, our savior to achieve that grace. It requires just as much from each of us”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie

“It isn’t because of who I am, Maureen. It’s because of who He is and what He’s done—what He longs to do in you!”
― Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“aim to live as a slave to Christ, because only then am I free…. We’re all in some kind of bondage …. Most of us have the freedom to choose that slavery, whether we realize it or not.” I’d”
― Cathy Gohlke, I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires

“We long for that promised day, when there will be no more death or sorrow, no more crying or pain, when things as we know them are passed away. We are ready, Lord, to be instruments of Your peace, soldiers for Your kingdom.”
― Cathy Gohlke, William Henry Is a Fine Name

“I sighed. I don't know what to do. Velma Richards seems like a woman who will carry out her threat". "No Doubt It's a crusade for her. " Moments passed. "Not much Christian about it is there?" I felt like snorting. I don't know it pretty well fits with what I've come to expect of Christians.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

“Growing is a patient thing, lad,” Daniel explained. “You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

“Jesus called Jews of every social rank. He called women and children and people from Samaria and tax collectors and prostitutes and the down and out to himself. He called unlearned fishermen for the greatest work in the history of the world. He called the humble and the penitent and those who were smart enough to recognize their need of a savior and to see that need fulfilled in him. Those people followed him, surrendered their all to him and obeyed his commands. They are the ones who deserve the name " Christian"- Christ followers. Anything less, anything Pharisaic and legalistic and arrogant, takes his name in vain.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Night Bird Calling

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not on thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” “It’s”
― Cathy Gohlke, I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires

“My peace, my companionship,” Olivia said softly, “come from my surety that the Lord loves me. Surety that because I’ve asked, believing He’s redeemed me, He’s also forgiven me and accepts me—now, as I am. He lives inside me, walks beside me, in the form of His Holy Spirit. He holds my heart, my life. He is my heart, my life.” As”
― Cathy Gohlke, Band of Sisters

“You can push all that past aside if you want to, but until you understand where people around here came from and why they think the way they do, you won't be able to help them get beyond it. You can't just whisk a magic wand and make the past disappear or rewrite it because you don't like it. You'll never change the present if you do that. You have to learn from what's gone on and work hard if you want to make the future better.”
― Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

“Life is full of ‘ifs,’ Robert. What is important is what we do with what is.”
― Cathy Gohlke, I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires

“Choose you this day whom ye will serve … but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
― Cathy Gohlke, William Henry Is a Fine Name

“He kneels upon the solid rock and is looking up—not down at his burden!”
― Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This

“No longer was it a hundred crickets screeching, but a choir, a hundred crickets singing a chorus of praise, just like the Scripture that she and Mis Lill had written in their letters for years. "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing.”
― Cathy Gohlke, A Hundred Crickets Singing

“Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.”
― Cathy Gohlke, I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires

“Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We’ve saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.”
― Cathy Gohlke, Saving Amelie