Quotes from Gloria Gaither

The things that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more. Breathless I unwrap the package. Never lived this day before.

When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Oh, God, You have given me a vacant soul, an untaught conscience, a life of clay. Put Your big hands around mine and guide my hands as a teacher guides the childish fingers that hold their first crayon, so that everytime I make a mark on this life, it will be Your mark. When my hands mold this clay, may the impressions be, in reality, made by the movement of Your hands and directed by Your perfect thoughts.

No matter what we are going through, no matter how long the waiting for answers, of one thing we may be sure. God is faithful. He keeps His promises. What He starts, He finishes, including His perfect work in us.

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.