Martha Finley > Quotes

“God calls us to a wild adventure, not a tea party, my dear. I don't follow Jesus because he can give me a life without pain. I follow him because he is good. Someday I will follow him right through death, and into our Heavenly Father's house."
Aunt Wealthy”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Unsettled Season

“Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.”
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“Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.”
― Martha Finley, Elsie's Girlhood

“Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“What sets you apart, what you call difference, comes from the Lord, but it is up to you to make the most of it.”
― Martha Finley, Violet's Hidden Doubts

“You will never have all the answers, Millie. You will always have to seek the Lord and trust Him with things you don't understand. But trusting Him comes easier the longer you walk with Him, the more you understand how good and faithful He is.”
― Martha Finley

“God does not always take us where we want to go, but He always leads us where we need to be.”
― Martha Finley, Violet's Hidden Doubts

“Having a relationship with God isn't about doing the right thing, it's about loving him and learning to really understand how much he loves you”
― Martha Finley

“We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.”
― Martha Finley

“Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new— She parts from love which hath still been true.”
― Martha Finley, Elsie's Womanhood

“Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.”
― Martha Finley, The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series

“Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.”
― Martha Finley, Elsie Dinsmore

“God doesn't want you to wait, he wants you to live.”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“Verily I say unto you," Stuart said, looking Cyril straight in the eye and folding his arms, "that if you do not mind your sister Millie, you will be smitten both hip and thigh”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Courageous Days

“Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath--though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect--very diligent in her studies; respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.”
― Martha Finley, Elsie Dinsmore

“For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,”
― Martha Finley, Elsie's Womanhood

“But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal”
― Martha Finley

“But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else...”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“if papa would only quit looking at me,”
― Martha Finley, Elsie Dinsmore

“Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you.”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“catching”
― Martha Finley, The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series

“Oh, who shall know the might Of the words he utter’d there? The fate of nations there was turned By the fervor of his prayer. “But wouldst thou know his name Who wandered there alone? Go, read enroll’d in Heaven’s archives, The prayer of Washington.”
― Martha Finley, MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – 35+ Novels in One Volume (Including The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series & Mildred Keith Collection): Elsie & Mildred Anthology

“They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which can not be removed, but abideth forever.”
― Martha Finley, The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series

“Sunday.”
― Martha Finley, MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – 35+ Novels in One Volume (Including The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series & Mildred Keith Collection): Elsie & Mildred Anthology

“Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.'" Then raising her eyes to his face with a touching mixture of deep humility and holy boldness, she continued, "And this, sir is my answer: Jesus says, 'Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out;' and I believe Him. I did go to Him, and He did not cast me out, but forgave my sins, and taught me to love Him and desire to serve Him all my life.”
― Martha Finley, Elsie Dinsmore

“Friends at Woodburn”
― Martha Finley, MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – 35+ Novels in One Volume (Including The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series & Mildred Keith Collection): Elsie & Mildred Anthology

“What's wrong with Wallace?' Millie said.

'The same thing that ails us all,' Gordon sighed. 'Millie Keith has broken his heart. Woe, woe...'

Millie stepped on his toe none too gently.

'...wouch! Did you learn that step in Charleston?”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“You fell in love in the South, Millie Keith.'

'Gordon, how did you...? Wait! Rhoda Jane could have told you that!'

'Could have, but she didn't. And nobody needs to tell me what it means that you're here and he is not.' Gordon looked across the river where the sun was sinking behind the hills like a burnished copper coin. 'If he breaks your heart, you just remember - there's almost nothing I can't fix.'

'He can't break it, Gordon,' Millie said. 'Bruise it perhaps, but not break it. My heart belongs to Jesus.'

'Mine, too,' Gordon said, smiling. 'Mine, too,' he laughed. 'I have to say, though, that it's occasionally taken a pounding.”
― Martha Finley, Millie's Steadfast Love

“people”
― Martha Finley, MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – 35+ Novels in One Volume (Including The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series & Mildred Keith Collection): Elsie & Mildred Anthology

“the large buckets about the”
― Martha Finley, The Elsie Dinsmore Series