Jennifer Delamere > Quotes

“Desire to rise up in defiance of a sibling’s low expectations? That was a feeling Cara could well understand.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Artful Match

“We don’t always know why terrible things happen. We can only search for any good that can come from the bad. Whatever the situation, we can always seek the Lord’s help.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Artful Match

“The future was, as it always had been, in God’s hands. He would keep working, and he would keep praying for help and guidance.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Artful Match

“She knew many things about the physical body and that organ in the chest that pumped blood, but she knew so little about affairs of the heart.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Heart's Appeal

“To win a soul would be more important than anything else she could do.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Heart's Appeal

“This present is the only place one can live.”
― Jennifer Delamere, Line by Line

“Often God's purposes become most clear when we are truly ready.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Captain's Daughter

“He wanted to step away from the overtrodden pathways of thought that, painful as they were, had been too easy to follow again and again. It was, in short, a longing to begin anew.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Artful Match

“They had formed a family from the bonds that mattered most—those of the heart.”
― Jennifer Delamere, The Artful Match

“You can see God at work in good circumstances or bad,” Margaret observed. “That is because he never leaves us or forsakes us.”
― Jennifer Delamere, A Lady Most Lovely

“What could be better than filling one's days with interesting and rewarding work, and to spend the evenings and weekends reading or walking in the park?”
― Jennifer Delamere, Line by Line

“We may pray to God for things, and He is often gracious enough to grant them. But how He does it is for Him to decide. Over the years, I've found that it rarely happens in the way I'd direct it if I were running the operation. But that's the interesting part. He always seems to have a better plan than I could ever come up with.”
― Jennifer Delamere, Crossed Lines