Martha Finley Quotes

God doesn't want you to wait, he wants you to live.

Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ...

But I wouldn't mind if You included a Prince Charles in my story. Charming!" Millie shook her head. "I meant Prince Charming. Really, Lord. Time to pray about something else...

God does not always take us where we want to go, but He always leads us where we need to be.

You fell in love in the South, Millie Keith.'

'Gordon, how did you...? Wait! Rhoda Jane could have told you that!'

'Could have, but she didn't. And nobody needs to tell me what it means that you're here and he is not.' Gordon looked across the river where the sun was sinking behind the hills like a burnished copper coin. 'If he breaks your heart, you just remember - there's almost nothing I can't fix.'

'He can't break it, Gordon,' Millie said. 'Bruise it perhaps, but not break it. My heart belongs to Jesus.'

'Mine, too,' Gordon said, smiling. 'Mine, too,' he laughed. 'I have to say, though, that it's occasionally taken a pounding.

Good husbands make good wives.

Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.

We are the Blisses,' Dearest said, patting her hand. 'Nothing we do surprises people anymore.

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For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all,

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

What's wrong with Wallace?' Millie said.

'The same thing that ails us all,' Gordon sighed. 'Millie Keith has broken his heart. Woe, woe...'

Millie stepped on his toe none too gently.

'...wouch! Did you learn that step in Charleston?

Dear papa, I love you so much!' she replied, twining her arms around his neck. 'I love you all the better for never letting me have my own way, but always making me obey and keep to rules.

What sets you apart, what you call difference, comes from the Lord, but it is up to you to make the most of it.

Cheer up, my dear," said Rose, leaning affectionately on her husband's arm; "it is altogether addition and not subtraction; you have not lost a daughter but gained a son.