Quotes from Lynn Austin

The war has changed you, too, Caroline. Your faith is stronger, your compassion deeper, your love more intense than ever before. It's as if all the qualities I saw in you and fell in love with have been refined and purified.

let Him run things the way He knows best, according to His will. Trust Him, Missy. Trust that everything you done for Him and everything you gave up for Him has a purpose. God will give it all meaning in the end.

Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.

The only way to grow in faith is to put your faith to the test. You must place yourself in His hands and let Him prove himself faithful. Unless you make up your mind to trust Him, you'll never know that Yahweh is faithful.

we need to ask God how He wants us to live in the times He has appointed for us. If we work with Him, using the gifts and the strength He provides, then we'll help build His kingdom, for His glory, here on earth. And that's really the only thing that matters.

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries-we're in great danger.

Don't hate them," Mama said as if reading Ans's mind. "They'll win if we hate them.

No, Missy. Ain't nothing wrong with being afraid—that's only human. But we need to give our fear to Massa Jesus instead of letting our imaginations run off with it.

He was slowly learning that walking in faith meant leaving a way of life in which he was in control and willingly walking in uncertainty, trusting that God was in control.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

Until one day I realized that regret from the past was keeping me from living well in the present. And it was robbing me of a future.

Your real Father is God. He's the only Father who will never disappoint you. And from the time He formed you in your mother's womb, He already knew you and loved you more than Karl Bauer or any other man ever could.