Quotes from Ann H. Gabhart

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.

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.

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.

Experience had taught her that not all scars showed, and those that did might be the least bothersome.

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.

Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.

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

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

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.

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.

There are times for growing stronger and times for comforting, and sometimes both times see a few tears.

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.

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.

Even a beige kind of girl could wear red sometimes.

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.

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.

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

Nay," Isaac said.

coming to Hollyhill to visit my

God helping her, she can do no other.'" The

I've always loved you, Adriene. I just didn't know it until I saw you. - Blake Garrett

Coddling a body cheats 'em out of finding their own strength.

They were a family. Her mother said that all the time, and then she would pick up Eddie and pull Adria close to her in a hug at the same time. If Daddy was there, he'd put his arms around them all and make what he called a family sandwich with his children in the middle.