159 Quotes by Jody Hedlund

This man was ... a man who could see past disappointment and lost dreams in order to still find hope and joy in living.

Lord, give me the courage and strength to seek your kingdom and righteousness first. For you promise that when I do, you'll provide all else.

Tis often the rarity that makes something so precious, wouldn't you say? If I were to have such extravagance daily then I might begin to think the jewels and the praise are ordinary rather than treasure them as I do.

You're following the Lord wholeheartedly, yet you're missing out on the forgiveness part. God's not just in the business of saving us from our sins. He's also in the business of forgiving those sins and putting them as far as the east is from the west.

Just because the whole world changes its opinion about something doesn't mean God changes his.

Maybe that's why God had placed the angel at the Garden of Eden—to keep people away from the Tree of Life? Not to prevent them from having something good, but to protect them from something that had the potential to ultimately destroy the world?

Iron sharpens iron," I quoted the old proverb. "If she is made of fine silk and you of iron, she will smother you. Or perhaps you will shred her.

She'd made a wreck of things, but thankfully God could take the wreckage and turn it into something beautiful.

Sometimes we have to take risks, even put our lives in jeopardy to do what's right.