Once upon a Summer Quotes

“God loves you, that He plans for your good, not your hurt. “It’s true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn’t because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya’ve still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S’pose there ain’t no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“I don’t understand all about God, but there’s one thing that I’m as sure of as the fact that I live and breathe. He loves us. He loves us completely, and always keeps our good in mind.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin’ us and shelterin’ us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?” I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. “They’d never bear flowers,” said Auntie Lou.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Whenever something comes into our life that hurts us, we do the decidin’—do I let this work for my good, as God intended, or do I let bitterness grow like a bothersome canker sore in my soul?”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya’ve still got yer memories. Thank God fer this special gift of His that lets ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S’pose there ain’t no price one would settle on fer the worth of memories.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Dear Lord, you know our need and how much we depend upon your help. We’re not going to give you orders about what to do, God. We are just going to thank you for being there when we need you. In the name of Jesus, your Son. Amen.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“It’s true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn’t because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don’t tend to them right away when they’re small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“You didn’t have to be a ma and a pa and four kids to be a family. All you needed was people livin’ together and lovin’ and helpin’ one another. That’s what made a family—blood-ties and love-bonds.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“As I say, I’d heard it all before, but one thing sorta caught me and had me puzzled. This preacher looked like what he was talkin’ about filled him with such happiness that he was about to bust. It seemed that he was pleased to pieces that God had gone out of His way to do all that for man. “Mercy,” he called it—mercy and grace—mercy bein’ the withholdin’ of what you really deserved, like a woodshed trip if you’d been bad; and grace—the gettin’ of what you really didn’t deserve, like the extra dish of ice cream when there were six servin’s and five people to share them. At”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“The other men came in and somehow Lou got the same order across to them. We all went to comply—like so many dumb sheep.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“I pushed it aside. I didn’t want to get love feelin’s all mixed in with my bitter ones. The one might somehow destroy the other.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“for the money that her outfit cost my grandpa.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“It was Gramps’ turn now. He took his time and”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“a few hours.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Do ya think he’ll agree to it?”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Goin’ to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?” “Well, it ain’t the goin’ to the altar,” said Willie. I had the feelin’ that he was repeatin’ what the preacher had said. “It’s the prayin’ thet makes the difference,”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“He laughed. “Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don’t tend to them right away when they’re small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“meant”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“curiosity”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“kitchen.”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“foot”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“effort”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Auntie”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“girl thet I’ve ever felt this way about.” Lou was probably thinkin’ right then about Tillie White-comb, who’d”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer

“Memories are beautiful things, Boy. When the person that ya loved is gone, when the happy time is over, then ya've still got yer memories. Thank God fear this special gift of His that let's ya sorta live yer experiences again and again. S'pose there ain't no price one would settle on fear the worth of memories”
― Janette Oke, Once upon a Summer

“WAIT to finish my chores that mornin’. I needed to sneak off to my favorite log along the crik bank and find myself some thinkin’ time. Too many things had been happening too fast; I was worried that my whole world was about to change. I didn’t want it changed. I liked things jest the way they were, but if I”
― Janette Oke, Once Upon a Summer