She had never seen anything so beautiful. Morning light spilled slowly over the mountains, across the valley to the cabin and the woods behind, and up the hillside. She felt Hosea's strong hands on her shoulders. "Mara, that's the life I want to give you."

Though you deny me, I love you with an everlasting love.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Beginnings are fragile things.

William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.

What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Moment by moment I'm kept in His love; Moment by moment I've life from above.

The manna of one day was corrupt when the next day came. I must every day have fresh grace from heaven, and I obtain it only in direct waiting upon God Himself. Begin each day by tarrying before God, and letting Him touch you. Take time to meet God.

In this matter of surrender, there are: God and I—I a worm, God the everlasting and omnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid to trust yourself to this mighty God now? God is willing. Do you not believe that He can keep you continually, day by day, and moment by moment? Moment by moment I'm kept in His love; Moment by moment I've life from above.

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.