Lynn Austin





Lynn Austin

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FROM AUTHOR'S WEBSITE: For many years, Lynn Austin nurtured a desire to write but frequent travels and the demands of her growing family postponed her career. When her husband's work took Lynn to Bogota, Colombia, for two years, she used the B.A. she'd earned at Southern Connecticut State University to become a teacher. After returning to the U.S., the Austins moved to Anderson, Indiana, Thunder Bay, Ontario, and later to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

It was during the long Canadian winters at home with her children that Lynn made progress on her dream to write, carving out a few hours of writing time each day while her children napped. Lynn credits her early experience of learning to write amid the chaos of family life for her ability to be a product...more


Average rating: 4.14 · 17,528 ratings · 2,625 reviews · 25 distinct works
Candle in the Darkness (Ref...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,990 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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Fire by Night (Refiners Fir...
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,604 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Gods and Kings (Chronicles ...
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 1,411 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions
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A Proper Pursuit
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 1,336 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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While We're Far Apart
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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Hidden Places
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,118 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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A Light to My Path (Refiner...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,083 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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A Woman's Place
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,039 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Eve's Daughters
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
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Until We Reach Home
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 894 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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More books by Lynn Austin…
Candle in the Darkness Fire by Night A Light to My Path
Refiners Fire (3 books)
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4.219166490374445 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 4,727 ratings
Gods and Kings Song of Redemption The Strength of His Hand Faith of My Fathers Among the Gods
Chronicles of the Kings (5 books)
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4.325914556152469 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3,909 ratings

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“Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart

“Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.”
Lynn Austin, Candle in the Darkness

“People are always thinking they can use the Lord to get their own way-- all they have to do is pray and God's gonna take away all their suffering and give them what they whatever they ask for. But it don't work that way. God's doing His business, and it's up to us to be serving Him, not the other way around."

Then why do people pray at all? My papa asked Jesus to help him escape with me when I was just a little girl. But Jesus didn't help us."

Praying ain't about asking for your own way. It's all about talking things over with God, just like you and me are talking things over. In the end, you have to be trusting the Lord to do what's best."

So the Lord thought it was best that my papa died and my mama was sold?"

Delia slowly shook her head. "I don't know, honey, I just don't know. The hardest thing of all to understand is why a loving God keeps letting us suffer... I don't know all the answers myself. I seen my share of suffering, believe me. But there two things I do know for sure. One is that God loves us... And the second thing is that God's always in control of everything that happens. When bad things come our way and it starts looking like He don't love us, all I can say is that maybe we ain't knowing everything He knows."

Kitty's tears started falling again. "I still don't understand."

Remember what you told me about the fighting up in Charleston? How you was standing on that porch, not able to see what's going on? This here's the same thing. We're standing in the smoke, hearing the noise [of the battle] all around us, and we don't know what God's doing because we can't see things clearly as He sees them. But He's gonna make everything turn our okay when the smoke clears. When it does, God's gonna be the winner and all our suffering here on earth is gonna finall make sense. We're gonna look in Jesus' face and say, 'O Lord, it was worth it all.”
Lynn Austin, A Light to My Path

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