An Untamed Land Quotes

Some say we will be doing all our field work with steam engines one day soon. Horses, mules, and oxen will become obsolete.

He could even read parts of the Bible. He’d started with the stories of his hero, David.

the pages of their English/Norwegian dictionary,

The baby’s fretful crying grated on her nerves, making her want to scream. The poor thing, it wasn’t her fault.

She looked around the table. “All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can’t praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.

...Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done.
Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)

the night

Look, he even tried getting at the rope.” Carl studied the scene. “With all the rodents

south,

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God’s plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

had splattered

the world. When the men

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