Jody Hedlund

“God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.”

“The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.”

“You don't have to let his definition of success be yours”

“Bulldog grunted. And I knew the matter was settled. My pulse thrummed with excitement. I was going to marry Juliana Wessex.”

“If only I'd realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I'd been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God.”

“Remember, we show courage in many ways.”

“I guess I figured that as long as I was with people I loved, I was home. It didn't matter where we were or what kind of place we lived in. We had each other and that was enough.”

“Hardships are the Lord's greatest blessings to the believer. Without them we would love the Lord only for what He does for us. Our troubles teach us to love Him for who He is." Sister Norton in "The Preacher's Bride”

“For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.”

“We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.”

“God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.”

“You're following the Lord wholeheartedly, yet you're missing out on the forgiveness part. God's not just in the business of saving us from our sins. He's also in the business of forgiving those sins and putting them as far as the east is from the west.”

“I find learning to be the most valuable of all the treasures in the world. It's priceless.”