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“To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“Make me proud today, Robmeister. Keep your hands to yourself and remember rule number one above all things.'

'Don't discuss politics.'

'No, the other one.'

Robbie nods. 'Don't eat glue.' He drops his chin. 'It's my weakness.”
― Jenny B. Jones, So Not Happening

“He says that it’s okay to be fearful. That some of God’s strongest warriors were frightened. The difference between a believer and the rest of the world is that we press on. We can be shaking in our boots, but we don’t turn back.”
― Jenny B. Jones

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

“God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a specific purpose for each person. How could it not be so? Everyone in a village cannot be a baker, because who would then make the candles or shoe the horses or grow the food? God says we are like a body. . . . Just as the villagers are part of a village and have different tasks, we all have tasks to do for the Lord God.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden

“That she was thirsty for heavenly things, there could be no doubt.”
― Laura Frantz, Love's Reckoning

“Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Samuel Johnson”
― Laura Frantz, Love's Reckoning

“God loves you, Meredyth, and wants to use your abilities to bless others as well as yourself. Even if you don't feel useful, you can be.”
― Dawn Crandall, The Bound Heart

“we all face choices in life. Some are small,insignificant choices like what to wear to the prom or what to say to your crush when you see him walking down the hall. Those choices may or may not have long-term effects on our lives. You never know. Then there are choices that are so huge, so important,you know you are altering the path of your life as you make them.”
― Dusti Bowling, The Day We Met

“You can’t let the thought of what other people expect be your compass, Ava.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we’re alone. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“I'll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change. Or make a fresh start.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends

“The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.”
― Katherine Reay, Dear Mr. Knightley

“Maybe that's what love is—sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.”
― Katherine Reay, Dear Mr. Knightley

“There is only one measure of true success, child. How close you remain by His side. Does the dust of His feet get on your cloak because you follow so close? Does the sound of His whisper reverberate in your ear because you have drawn so near? Are you obedient to that voice, day after day, hour after hour? That’s how I measure success. Do you understand?”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
― C.S. Lewis

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
― Joyce Meyer

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“He loved her with a pursuing love that she could scarcely comprehend. Her mistakes had been paid for. Miracle of miracles, they’d been paid for. And now she needed only to have faith in Him and accept the waterfall of His grace.”
― Becky Wade, Meant to Be Mine

“Where did you and your brother get your weapons from?" Meg asked Bo. "Our cars." "You drive around with handguns and shotguns in your cars?" Bo slanted a look down at her, humor in his eyes. "We're hicks from a small town in Texas. 'Course we do." She shook her head. "Wait till you see the arsenal I'll be driving around with from now on.”
― Becky Wade, Undeniably Yours

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“This life is not about our comfort. We have an eternity for that. I really think this is about training and testing. We will have work to do in Heaven, work that is fulfilling and perfect for us. God needs to develop certain skill sets in us before that time. That may be what this life is about.”
― Terri Blackstock, Twisted Innocence

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But you don’t have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.”
― Susan May Warren, It Had to Be You