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“Our faith is the rock we stand on, Willa—but we don’t demand anyone else stand here with us. Though if ever you wanted to, there is plenty of room.”
“God is real, my friend. And I daresay you have seen Him—you just didn’t know it.”
the greatest risk comes the greatest reward. Even so. The greatest risks meant the greatest preparation, the greatest planning, the greatest caution. That was the only way to master them.
“My mother always says that the one you’re meant to marry is simply the one you do marry—it’s not a matter of romance, it’s a matter of deciding to love and make it work.”
attention to each individual note? Can he put together an orchestra without caring about each musician in it? It’s ridiculous to posit a Creator who stands back, unconcerned. If we grant a God, we have to grant a complete God.”
He didn’t have to know God personally to recognize that basic truth—that if everyone lived by those principles of right and wrong, the world would be a much better place.
the more one spoke to God, the better one could recognize His voice in return.
Softness, she’d always claimed, should have a spine of steel hidden inside it. Willa had the steel—it just wasn’t much hidden.
“You can spend your life regretting what you’ve lost. Or you can thank the Lord for what He’s given.
