A Searching Heart Quotes

“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“But If it is to be, or not, That's all in God's hands.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“Sometimes, the darkest part of the morning is just before dawn”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“There was no use grieving over what might have been”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“And just as simply as that, it was over. She was no longer a student in the local town. She was a graduate. An adult. She thought she should feel something. Older.Wiser. But she felt nothing but a strange emptiness. An inner knowledge that she was now on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own wings”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“And I have discovered that God had it all planned, even before I had caught on to it.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“Little is much, If love abides”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“I love him. Have loved him through each of his growing stages. But I do not want him to stay the same. I want him to grow. To mature. To become everything God has in mind for him. To be a man. Accept responsibility. Be a leader...And he will. I have every confidence he will. He's on the right track-your brother. Following the leading of his Lord. I want him to change, but I never want him to leave behind the solid base he has already established for who he is deep inside. But I also want him to build and develop and carefully nurture that inner self. And as that happens, there will be changes.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“God is like that, Virginia concluded. He's always on duty. Moving from one need to another. Always there- for everyone. He'll get us through this. He has a way.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“I want to thank you for that. Personally. Whether you knew it at that time or not, you had a great deal to do with shaping the life and character of the man I have come to love”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

“with peach syrup, was still studying him carefully. Virginia”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart