35 Quotes by Jill Eileen Smith

Rahab pondered the thought. “I don’t suppose a pomegranate or a fig as an offering would have the same effect on our hearts. To see an innocent life taken in our place is much more humbling than offering Adonai fruit.

Arrow prayers darted heavenward.

We don’t always know why God allows trials. We do know He wants us to trust Him.

When had she started to love him so? Had she missed something precious in him in years past when she wished he had been something he was not? Or had he been what she wanted all along but she could not see it?

No one chooses his time. That is up to God.

I admit, I find it easier to pray in solitude. Did not moses say that our God is near to us whenever we pray to him? I think he hears our prayers no matter where we pray them. I don’t think our God is hindered by where we are.

It is God who trains our hands for war.

Sometimes a person’s life is longer than their years.