Top 100 Janette Quotes
#1. Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
Randy Alcorn
#2. A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world
Janette Oke
#3. Sometimes I cannot understand the things men do. The way they gnash and tear at one another - it's worse than wolves or foxes.
Janette Oke
#4. This is life in a fallen world, where wars come and go, where nations rage and people cry in torment. We must be strong, not in ourselves, but in Him. And trust that His love and His wisdom and His light will see us through.
Janette Oke
#5. She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.
Janette Oke
#6. A wonderful truth engulfed her. She was safe. They were all still safe. As long as they followed the ways of God, they had nothing to fear. He was holy - but he was just. And as long as they followed their godly leaders - like Peter, like Stephen - they would remain protected and on the right path.
Janette Oke
#8. but the truth is this. Peter opened his heart and mind to the Spirit's movement and acted as he was directed. Nothing more. We are merely hands and feet for the Spirit's use.
Janette Oke
#9. I am not afraid of death, Abigail. I am afraid that I might draw back and not be bold in proclaiming the gospel." He hesitated, then said, "And I am afraid that I might not stand firm. That under the heel of the enemy, in pain, I might deny my Lord.
Janette Oke
#10. Live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted
Janette Oke
#11. To let go of even life, if need be, and accept his calling.
Janette Oke
#12. When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.
Janette Rallison
#13. Reckon I'd be lyin' iffen I didn't own up to feelin' a little sore here an' there," Willie said with a grin. "An' thet's all thet yer gonna git me to confess. Full-grown able-bodied man shouldn't be admittin' to even thet. Folks will be thinkin' thet I never worked a day in my life.
Janette Oke
#14. His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The
Janette Oke
#15. They met each morning with a group of the followers for a time of thanksgiving and supplication, a practice maintained by members of their group throughout Jerusalem.
Janette Oke
#16. I wiped the drips from my face and shook my hands free of the coldness and told Wynn how good it tasted. Wynn drank, too, as a reminder to himself that he had been right. No other water on earth tastes quite like that of a mountain stream.
Janette Oke
#17. The Sadducees are Hellenized Judeans and dominate the Council. The Pharisees are a minority on the Council, and consider the Sadducees to be their, well - " "Their enemy.
Janette Oke
#18. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
Janette Oke
#19. Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.
Janette Turner Hospital
#21. If building roads actually resulted in less traffic, then surely after sixty years of interstate highway construction we would all be cruising at highway speed.
Janette Sadik-Khan
#22. No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.
Janette Rallison
#23. We'll wire ahead and have your trunks sent back - because I'm not letting you go after them. Trunks or no trunks, you're staying here - where you belong." I had no objections.
Janette Oke
#24. Memories are so fragile, you know. Sometimes I feel they are best left undisturbed.
Janette Oke
#25. Sir!" Alban came to rigid attention as his feet smacked the floor and saluted. "Centurion Alban reporting to the garrison commander, sir!" "I
Janette Oke
#26. Part of learning to count my blessings is accepting that many of them I would not have chosen if
Janette Oke
#27. I didn't feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this.
Janette Oke
#28. Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.
Janette Oke
#29. Nazarenes." Ezra faltered, leaning against a nearby wall. The word in Hebrew was Hanozree and held powerful significance among religious Judeans. The word signified the highest form of denial of self, rejection of sin, turning away from temptation, and earnestly seeking the Lord.
Janette Oke
#30. I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
Janette Rallison
#31. You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought ...
Janette Rallison
#32. 'My Fair Godmother's movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'
Janette Rallison
#33. You lucky bitch. He's packing and eats pussy like it's his job. What's that website again?
Kathryn Perez
#34. Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.
Janette Rallison
#35. Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.
Janette Rallison
#36. That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.
Janette Rallison
#37. When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being ... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon
because it all happens right here, where it's safe.
Janette Oke
#39. We didn't try to talk. We really didn't need to. Later we would hear from one another all the details of the four miserable days of separation. For now it was enough just to be together again.
Janette Oke
#40. It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.
Janette Rallison
#41. Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.
Janette Oke
#42. Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
Janette Rallison
#43. The compass needle tells the truth, Beth, even in a storm. And then one must adjust the rest of one's circumstances in accordance - even though sometimes it feels amiss. It reminds me that the Bible is like that too. It tells us the truth, and then we must adjust our thinking, our actions, to match.
Janette Oke
#45. That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.
Janette Rallison
#46. There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
Janette Turner Hospital
#48. When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.
Janette Barber
#49. Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one's own work?
Janette Oke
#50. Written, preserved, and passed on to us. What an indescribable blessing it is for us
Janette Oke
#51. I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
Janette Rallison
#52. Her love for Willie drove her to decide for his happiness. He'd never be happy to admit defeat, to leave his beloved hills and valleys and return back east.
Janette Oke
#54. It was much easier to clean feet than to clean shoes.
Janette Oke
#55. Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
Janette Rallison
#56. It'll be okay," I said.
"We're here for you." Kelly said.
"I've decided to become a divorce lawyer," Amanda said.
Well, we all have our own ways of showing we care.
Janette Rallison
#57. Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.
Janette Rallison
#58. That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.
Janette Turner Hospital
#59. She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.
Janette Oke
#60. She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.
Janette Rallison
#61. Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts
Janette Oke
#62. Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
Janette Rallison
#63. Many of the girls wear simple dresses to church. We do not make a point of 'dressing up,' nor do we study one another to see what is being worn. Nor does God. It's our hearts He views as we enter the doors to His church. Not our clothing.
Janette Oke
#64. God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good
and because it's from Him, even much better
Janette Oke
#65. It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.
Janette Rallison
#66. with peach syrup, was still studying him carefully. Virginia
Janette Oke
#67. No one ever outgrows the need for a mother's love.
Janette Oke
#68. New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.
Janette Rallison
#69. He was too bold," said Abigail with a shake of her head. "It was not proper. And he is Roman." Leah
Janette Oke
#70. True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.
Janette Oke
#71. We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.
Janette Oke
#75. Some tea?" "I wouldn't say no, sir." When
Janette Oke
#76. The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.
Janette Rallison
#77. Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.
Janette Rallison
#79. It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
Janette Rallison
#80. But I refused to mope about for the evening. My little ritual with teacup, familiar chair, and a favorite Dickens story went a long way toward improving my outlook.
Janette Oke
#81. Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don't learn to treasure the moments, you'll never be able to treasure the memories.
Janette Oke
#82. A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.
Janette Oke
#83. Whenever something comes into our life that hurts us, we do the decidin' - do I let this work for my good, as God intended, or do I let bitterness grow like a bothersome canker sore in my soul?
Janette Oke
#84. Number 12, always remember that I love you -both of you."
"Oh, Willie, ya silly goose!
Janette Oke
#85. My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on,"an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".
Janette Oke
#87. Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.
Janette Oke
#88. Do I tell you how to braid your hair? Don't tell me how to plow a field.
Janette Oke
#89. Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
Janette Rallison
#90. I don't understand all about God, but there's one thing that I'm as sure of as the fact that I live and breathe. He loves us. He loves us completely, and always keeps our good in mind.
Janette Oke
#91. You simply need to trust, take each next step by faith. You will know what is right when the time comes.
Janette Oke
#92. A person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.
Janette Oke
#93. We did not go right to sleep but talked until late into the night. There was so much to tell one another, so many questions on my mind.
Janette Oke
#94. I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.
Janette Rallison
#95. It may sound simplistic, but is meant wholeheartedly. We are so privileged to have the Scriptures
Janette Oke
#97. I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
Janette Turner Hospital
#98. Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
Janette Rallison
#99. Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.'
And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.
Janette Rallison
#100. Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.
Janette Oke
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