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.”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“He could even read parts of the Bible. He’d started with the stories of his hero, David.”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“the pages of their English/Norwegian dictionary,”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“The baby’s fretful crying grated on her nerves, making her want to scream. The poor thing, it wasn’t her fault.”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“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.”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“...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)”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“the night”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“Look, he even tried getting at the rope.” Carl studied the scene. “With all the rodents”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“south,”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“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.”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“had splattered”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“the world. When the men”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“of the”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land

“things hoped for, the assurance of things unseen.” “We must have faith.” Kaaren closed the book in her lap. “Ja, we must,” Ingeborg acknowledged. But”
― Lauraine Snelling, An Untamed Land