Spring Will Come Quotes

“Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people’s garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“disagreeing”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“There is always good news, Rose. There are always great acts of kindness, sacrifice and courage in times like these.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“They didn’t have to agree with each other, but love demanded she at least try to understand him.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“Our gracious Father, we need you to help make sense of the world we are living in. Thank you for your continual blessing and your supplying of our needs. May we find ourselves”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“Every life that has been lived until today is a part of the woven
braid of life.
  It takes every person’s story to create history.
Your life will help determine the course of history.
  You may think you don’t have much of an impact.
  You do.
Every action you take will reflect in someone else’s life.
  Someone else’s decisions.
Someone else’s future.
Both good and bad.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“My mama didn’t believe anyone was a failure. She figured those folks need to find out what they’re supposed to be doing. Once they find that out, they’ll have all the abilities and gifts they need to perform it.” She paused again. “Teresa, you’re a very special person. If you decide not to come back, don’t feel badly. It only means there is something else you’re supposed to be doing.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“She used to tell me that some people stagger under the burden of failure because they were never supposed to be doing what they were doing anyway. She said some people try to do things God never gifted them for in the first place. Then they feel like miserable failures because they don’t succeed.” Rose gazed deeply into Teresa’s eyes. “My mama didn’t believe anyone was a failure. She figured those folks need to find out what they’re supposed to be doing. Once they find that out, they’ll have all the abilities and gifts they need to perform it.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“My mama used to tell me something,” she said softly. “She used to tell me that some people stagger under the burden of failure because they were never supposed to be doing what they were doing anyway. She said some people try to do things God never gifted them for in the first place. Then they feel like miserable failures because they don’t succeed.” Rose gazed deeply into Teresa’s eyes. “My mama didn’t believe anyone was a failure. She figured those folks need to find out what they’re supposed to be doing. Once they find that out, they’ll have all the abilities and gifts they need to perform it.” She paused again. “Teresa, you’re a very special person. If you decide not to come back, don’t feel badly. It only means there is something else you’re supposed to be doing.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“but”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“there is nothing wrong with fear.” “Not as long as you don’t let it stop you,”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“that thin’ that scares you so much. The doin’ will wring most of the fear right out”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“Dark”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“I’m realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“– 1864”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“God might never have wanted blacks to be hauled to this country as slaves, but now that we’re here, I know for certain he wants the hatin’ to stop. It’s our job to make sure it happens, at least in our own hearts. I reckon those are the only ones we can really answer for.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“exclaimed, reaching down to rub Granite’s neck. “You did a good job,” Robert praised. “You have what it takes to make a fine horseman.” “Really?” Clint asked. “I would let you work with my horses any day,” Robert said. The spark in Clint’s eyes was replaced by a dark”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come: 1862-1863

“can trust God so easily with one thing, but five minutes later something else has me anxious and worried. I’ve learned I have to ask myself in every situation if I believe God loves me. If the answer is yes, then I have to choose to trust him. It’s a daily decision.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“Why, that be one man who ain’t got nothin’ but hate poisonin’ his blood. But there ain’t been no one born that be that way from the start. No, somethin’ done put that poison in him. We prob’ly won’t never know what put it there, but it been put there sho‘nuff. You gots to pity a man like that. Now, I be hatin’ the things he be doin’ as much as anybody else, but it won’t be doin’ my heart no good to be hatin’ him. That won’t do nothin’ but put poison in my own blood. No, I reckon I’ll keep on pitying that poor empty shell of a man.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“I guess I needed that.” “No one can stay strong all the time in the midst of such madness,” Carrie assured her. “I’ve wondered how you managed to for so long.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“she had realized she could waste energy with anger and frustration, or simply accept what was and do the best she could to make a difference. If”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“stops every now and again to check on ya.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“medical”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“Never again will I allow myself to be so caught up in the events of my world and my activities that I lose contact with my own heart and mind. All my achievements mean nothing if I lose myself in the process.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“When you can find no reason to celebrate, you find one anyway. Every soul needs laughter and fun, no matter how awful the reality of the present.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“over”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“Why, that be one man who ain’t got nothin’ but hate poisonin’ his blood. But there ain’t been no one born that be that way from the start. No, somethin’ done put that poison in him. We prob’ly won’t never know what put it there, but it been put there sho ‘nuff. You gots to pity a man like that. Now, I be hatin’ the things he be doin’ as much as anybody else, but it won’t be doin’ my heart no good to be hatin’ him. That won’t do nothin’ but put poison in my own blood. No, I reckon I’ll keep on pitying that poor empty shell of a man.”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come

“North. He believes they saw him as”
― Virginia Gaffney, Spring Will Come