8 Quotes by Cathy Gohlke

Does your hate make you happy, my dear, or does it continually eat through you, a cancer of its own making? Does the constant fueling of that angry fire not exhaust you and take away from living the wonderful life you’ve been given?

Growing is a patient thing, lad,” Daniel explained. “You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.

No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in life—and pain and trouble come to all of us—no matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.

Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.

Joy is the gift of God, and you are His child. He loves you so. He rejoices over you with singing!

As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It’s no good being fearful. Worry won’t change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.

You can fool some of the people some of the time – but you’d best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.

Each morning, when we wake – if we wake – we pick up whatever it is we’ve been given to carry for that day, with the sweet Lord Jesus in the yoke beside us to tote the load. Each night we lay it down, giving it into God’s hands. If it’s still there in the morning, we pick it up and begin again. If the burden is gone or if there is something different, we know where to start.