Top 69 Jody Hedlund Quotes
#1. The key to a good marriage is to do all you can to uplift your wife and treasure her - even in her worst moments.
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#2. You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother.
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#3. Sometimes we have to take risks, even put our lives in jeopardy to do what's right.
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#4. Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all.
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#5. I've come to believe one of the reasons God designed marriage was to help us grow in holiness and character. We get to practice on a daily basis being humble, kind, sacrificial, self-controlled, and so much more.
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#6. What are you going to do?" Stuart kept pace with her. "I don't know." He grinned. "Sounds like my kind of plan." "You should know my motto is to act first, think later." "I think I'm beginning to catch on to that.
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#7. Much as I'd enjoyed Sir Collin's bantering and easy ways, as much as I liked his goodness and generosity, my feelings for him weren't yet deep enough to take something so extraordinary.
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#8. I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?"
"You're getting to know me well ... "
"Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.
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#9. They would face many more hardships in the days to come. They wouldn't be perfect and neither would their marriage. But they could still live happily ever after . . . together.
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#10. You don't have to let his definition of success be yours
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#11. God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Maybe we won't have the beauty of a perfect summer. But neither do we have to endure the callousness of an uncaring winter. Instead, we can all look for our own spring- we can discover where God wants to use us. Do you hear the whisper of spring?
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#14. The other two knights would have flattered me to put me at ease. But he was different, somehow bolder and requiring boldness of me at the same time. My
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#15. But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.
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#16. God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.
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#17. Eli Ernest, you're exasperating me." He grinned. "I've been told that's one of my best qualities." "You mean worst." "That too.
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#18. The power of giving life and taking by death belong to God alone. He won't allow what He hasn't already ordained. And since He fixed the number of days your mother would walk on this earth, neither you nor anyone could do anything to prolong it, not even if you helped in a dozen ways.
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#19. We have no control over the future. We can only make the most of the present.
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#20. Courage can be displayed in many forms, my lord,' I said gently. 'Sometimes it's evident in the knight charging forward with the lance on his steed. But perhaps it can also take the form of a head bowed before the enemy.
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#21. Is there ever anything safe about serving the Lord with one's whole heart?
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#22. You will do those great things beside a great man." Mother lifted her chin and started toward the door. "And that man is waiting for you downstairs. I shall send him up to see you now.
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#23. When things don't turn out the way we want, about the only thing we can do is know God is still there piecing together all the scraps of the events in our lives the way He has planned. He sees the big picture even when we don't.
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#24. There are actually some men in the world who care more about a women's character than her physical appearance.
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#25. Her words made her pause. She couldn't have anything that was truly worthwhile without fighting for it-her farm, her family, and perhaps even love
-Annalisa
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#26. But perhaps I'd also pray that somehow I could convince Sir Derrick to fight to win my heart.
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#27. Moreover, Jesus showed love to the lowest, poorest, sickest people. As His followers, He calls us to do the same.
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#28. As a knight, I was bound to believe the best about someone until proven otherwise.
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#29. Tis often the rarity that makes something so precious, wouldn't you say? If I were to have such extravagance daily then I might begin to think the jewels and the praise are ordinary rather than treasure them as I do.
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#30. My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.
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#31. The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.
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#32. We're all born depraved, Mrs. Grew. We all have bad blood. Thus, we all have need of the cleansing blood of the Savior.
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#33. 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.
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#34. God doesn't expect us to be perfect women or perfect missionaries. Rather, He wants us to learn to lean upon Him more, to let Him be our help during those stormy blasts.
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#35. No one's a lost cause. You have just as much potential as anyone else.
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#36. The Bible says not to let the sun go down on your anger,' Dad said. 'I've applied that to our marriage, and it's helped us work through plenty of problems and disappointments.'
'You've had problems?'
At the surprise in his tone, Mom laughed. 'Of course we have. We're both sinners, aren't we?
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#37. You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.
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#38. No, he wanted her to smile because he could see that she needed it, that she'd had too little merriment in her short life.
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#39. Elizabeth realized that for one who was sightless, the girl could see more than most.
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#40. But even brave people are afraid on occasion. Sometimes fear can protect us from being too foolish or reckless.
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#41. Bulldog grunted. And I knew the matter was settled. My pulse thrummed with excitement. I was going to marry Juliana Wessex.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Alex let out a sigh, pushing down a swell of jealousy. He didn't want Michael to like Tessa so much. His brother's affection would only complicate matters when Alex finally swept Tessa off her feet.
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#45. I was afraid he would pull away, that he would retreat into himself and resist my comfort. But
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#46. I don't know what my pathetic life is going to look like now, but I nee you to help me survive.
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#47. Would Emma think him too bold for sharing something so intimate with her? She carefully folded the letter and then held up the cross as if admiring it. "This is too special a gift. I couldn't possibly accept - " "Please. I want you
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#48. She smiled, and her smile was filled with all of the sweetness and forgiveness that she offered so freely - and that he didn't deserve. But maybe, as with God, it was time to finally stop condemning himself and accept the gift.
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#49. I think we're as different as land and water.'
'James and I were very different too.'
'You were? But you seem so good together, so much in harmony.' And so passionate, but Victoria bit back the too-intimate words.
'It's taken years and lots of hard work to develop that kind of unity.
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#50. If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years.
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#51. In our marriage,' Zelma continued, ' we can let the difficulties drive us apart or drive us to our knees.
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#52. She'd made a wreck of things, but thankfully God could take the wreckage and turn it into something beautiful.
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#53. I have searched far and wide ... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires.
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#54. My theory is that every little bit has the potential to help. We just have to learn where to focus our limited time and energy, because we obviously can't do it all.
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#55. Even so, I was growing more anxious to make my escape and fly like an arrow as far away as I could. But I'd made a deal with Collin, and I couldn't break it after just one day, could I?
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#56. He wiped his thumb across the trail of her tears. If I could, I would get the whole world for you.
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#57. For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.
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#58. I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman.
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#59. And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.
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#61. 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
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#62. God sure has a sense of humor. I've always tried to stay as far away as possible from lighthouses, and here I am the acting lightkeeper
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#63. 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.
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#64. Education has the capability of making women better wives and mothers. Since families are the cornerstone of our society, we should strengthen women's abilities to teach their children because then we strengthen our society as a whole.
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#65. Marriage doesn't put an end to one's ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I've seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.
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#66. The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.
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#67. If they made it out of the well alive, he'd stay and fight for her no matter the cost. He wouldn't run away again, not even if Peter put a gun to his head. He'd do whatever he had to in order to win her heart. He'd beg her to forgive him. And then he'd beg her to marry him.
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#68. Her face a mask of fury and determination.
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#69. The idea of being trapped in the north for the winter had given Tessa pause for only a moment before she'd cast it aside. She was going on an adventure, she'd reminded herself. And adventures always had an element of danger in them. That's what made them exciting.
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