Quotes from Terri Blackstock

Is quick relief worth it? No, it isn't. I'd rather take the pain myself so they won't have to.

She was a gift he hadn't let himself ask for. But God was good and provided what he needed.

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.

Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.

Starting immediately, thank God for every gift He gives, from those as small as a whiff of honeysuckle or jasmine in your backyard, to the realization that you just had a few moments without back pain, to really big things like the fact that [people you love] are in the next room safe and sound. "I'm

Thank goodness God is still faithful even when we're faithless.

Jesus said, 'You have not, because you ask not.

Ben's chances in the campaign.

Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren't immune to tragedy. That we can't use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.

His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.

The story of her personal journey appears in books such as Touched By the Savior by Mike Yorkey, True Stories of Answered Prayer by Mike Nappa, Faces of Faith by John Hanna, and I Saw Him in Your Eyes by Ace Collins.

He sank in emotion, but kept praying, lifting Beth up to the throne of heaven, laying her in the arms of God, begging him for healing. Even Logan, who usually prayed in halting one-sentence prayers, talked openly to God, appealing to the Creator of the universe to pull Beth from the edge of death.