Ann H. Gabhart Quotes

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.

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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.

Nay," Isaac said.

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.

A sensitive nose isn't always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt.

I love you more than life itself." There was no way she could doubt his words, because he was opening his eyes to her and letting her glimpse his soul.

Love doesn't always come barreling down on you like a train engine. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like spring overtaking winter. The chill winds begin to warm and suddenly the trees have leaves and the flowers are blooming.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Home was more than a house. It was a place in a person's heart.

Even when the divorce papers had come in the mail, even when he'd finally signed them, he'd still felt married, still felt as if he had to be faithful to those vows even though they were empty and meaningless now. Perhaps that was just because he was afraid of moving past those vows, afraid of starting over. So now he looked straight into the eyes of that fear. The fear of being hurt again. The fear of not being worthy of a woman's love. The fear of failure.

You are beautiful inside and outside, through and through, and I love you completely. Desperately. With every inch of my heart and soul, and I always will to my dying day.

Ma says that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,' Jeralene said. 'But that the Lord has put something pretty in everybody.

Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

...just seeing him standing there made a smile run through her clear down to her toes.

Love is a strange animal. You can't always tame it and make it behave the way you want it to. For years, I thought I could. I thought I could use love the way I used lipstick and perfume. Just to get what I wanted. But real love isn't that way. Real love bangs you around and makes you do things you never thought you would do.