These Healing Hills Quotes

“So do you have a cure in your medicine bag?' Ben tried to lighten the moment.
'No. But I do have something my grandmother told me once. When things are the most confused in our lives, that's when the Lord can work best.'
'I don't like confusion. I like things laid out in straight rows with everybody knowing which rows belong to them.'
'But life is rarely that way. We make squiggles and turns and sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. But either way the Lord has a plan and a purpose.'
'If that's true, he hasn't let me in on what it is. That plan and purpose.'
She smiled. 'He will. When it's time. That's another thing she said. His time is not our time.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“Even a beige kind of girl could wear red sometimes.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“Her father told her she was pretty, but all fathers said that. Grandma Howard told her pretty on the outside didn't particularly matter. Pretty on the inside is what mattered to the good Lord.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“She remembered asking Grandma Howard once the best time to pray. Her grandmother had said, "There's no right or wrong time. Anytime can be the best time. Or all the time. Me, I'm partial to walking prayers."
"Walking prayers?" That had been a puzzle to Fran.
"Those a people can say while she's busy doing what has to be done. Like when I'm walking to the barn or the garden. Grabbing minutes with the Lord. His children don't have to set up appointments for him to pay attention. He's always ready to bend down his ear to us.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“No. But I do have something my grandmother told me once. When things are the most confused in our lives, that's when the Lord can work best.'

'I don't like confusion. I like things laid out in straight rows with everybody knowing which rows belong to them.'

'But life is rarely that way. We make squiggles and turns and sometimes things work out and sometimes they don't. But either way the Lord has a plan and a purpose.'

'If that's true, He hasn't let me in on what it is. That plan and purpose.'

She smiled. 'He will. When it's time. That's another thing she said. His time is not our time.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“I learnt a long time back to accept whatever comes my way. Best savor the good and bear up under the bad. There ain't no changin' none of it.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“There are times for growing stronger and times for comforting, and sometimes both times see a few tears.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“Ma says that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,' Jeralene said. 'But that the Lord has put something pretty in everybody.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“Just one more thing, Nurse Girl. You keep in mind there's times to shrug off the rules and do what you know is true in your own insides.'
'You mean follow my heart.'
'Heart, gut, feet, whatever. Just don't let your oughta-dos mess up them long years ahead of you.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“She smiled up at him. 'The edge of dark. I love the way you say things here.'
'It's just talk to folks up here.'
'I suppose so, but to my ears it sounds poetic.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills

“She would see the sun set behind the mountain and listen for the whip-poor-wills after dark. And she would be right where she needed to be. Perhaps she was home.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, These Healing Hills