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“Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.”
― Robert Morgan

“We don’t know a tenth of what there is to know,” Mr. Pendergast said. “Why we don’t even know a sixth.”
― robert morgan, Gap Creek

“When things are going badly, when you feel trapped between sword and sea, when you’re under assault, acknowledge the devil—but keep your eyes on Christ. He will see you through. He will make a way.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Self-forgiveness comes when we realize that if God has forgiven us, we needn’t remain angry with ourselves, needn’t hate ourselves any longer. God will use it all for good.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“A. W. Tozer said, “To the child of God, there is no such thing as an accident. He travels an appointed way. . . . Accidents may indeed appear to befall him and misfortune stalk his way; but these evils will be so in appearance only and will seem evils only because we cannot read the secret script of God’s hidden providence.”4 This”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“God will always make a way for His tired, yet trusting, children,”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“The good Lord made the world so we could earn our joy, Ma said. But it's no guarantee we'll ever be happy.”
― Robert Morgan, Gap Creek

“RED SEA RULE 2 Be more concerned for God’s glory than for your relief.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Whenever I haven’t known what to do, I’ve just tried to do what comes next,”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“We mustn’t doubt in the darkness what God has showed us in the light.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“we are most anxious and distressed, God will make a way when there seems to be no way.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“The preacher John R. Rice said, “Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.” Bishop”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“God doesn’t waste suffering. If He leads us into impossible spots, He will deliver us in His own time, in His own way, and for His name’s sake.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Almost all good stories are sad because it is the human struggle that engages us readers and listeners the most. To watch characters confront their hardships and uncertainties makes us feel better about our own conflicts and confusions and fears. We have a sense of community, of sympathy, a cleansing sympathy, as Aristotle said, and relief that we are safe in our room only reading the story. A story of sadness, even tragedy, makes us feel, paradoxically, better, as though we are confronting our own conflicts and fears, and have endured.”
― Robert Morgan

“When we rebuff the enemy in the name of Jesus Christ, when we stand our ground, when we resist his wiles and claim the victory of faith, when we shake off discouragement in the name of our Lord, Satan falls from heaven faster than lightning. He is drowned in the Red Sea of the blood of Jesus Christ.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“The best way to develop an abiding awareness of God’s presence is to speak to Him often in prayer.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“There is a smell that lung sickness gives people. It’s the smell of blood and congestion and fever. It’s the smell of blood mixed with air that hangs over a bed and fills a sickroom. It’s the smell of old blood, and blood that is fresh and already old. It’s the smell of a festering wound.”
― Robert Morgan, Gap Creek

“Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“there are no cookie cutters in heaven.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“THE RED SEA RULES RULE 1 Realize that God means for you to be where you are. RULE 2 Be more concerned for God’s glory than for your relief. RULE 3 Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord. RULE 4 Pray! RULE 5 Stay calm and confident, and give God time to work. RULE 6 When unsure, just take the next logical step by faith. RULE 7 Envision God’s enveloping presence. RULE 8 Trust God to deliver in His own unique way. RULE 9 View your current crisis as a faith builder for the future. RULE 10 Don’t forget to praise Him.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. (Ps. 50:15)”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“The reality of God’s presence both comforts our hearts and restrains our behavior.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars”),”
― Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography

“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the next. This keeps the heart in abiding dependence upon God.” It”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“His name was Sir William Osler, and these are the words he read: “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Visualizing God’s presence not only bestows comfort, but it restrains sinful tendencies.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Let me say I am here, (1) By God’s appointment, (2) In His keeping, (3) Under His training,”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“When God fixes our position for us, we may rest assured that it is a wise and salutary one; and even when we foolishly and willfully choose a position for ourselves, He most graciously overrules our folly, and causes the influences of our self-chosen circumstances to work for our spiritual benefit.” Trust”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times

“Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord.”
― Robert Morgan, The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times