159 Quotes by Jody Hedlund

God’s already let go of your past. He doesn’t remember it. He doesn’t count it against you. Now it’s time for you to let go too.

Maybe we should stop looking at why God doesn’t answer every prayer the way we think He should. But instead we should count it a blessing that He hears our prayers at all.

We’re all born depraved, Mrs. Grew. We all have bad blood. Thus, we all have need of the cleansing blood of the Savior.

In some ways, she sensed that God found some humor in taking her “I won’t ever’s” and turning them into “I will’s”.

Sometimes, when we think we’ve come to a dead end, we’ve arrived instead at God’s stepping-stone on the way to bigger plans.

His heart opened wide with the need to acknowledge not only the existence of God but also the existence of a merciful and loving God. He’d been an undeserving wretch, but God had saved him – not only from the clutches of dangers, toils, and snares, but from the very brink of hell itself.

Please know this, Miss Wilkins. I am most reservedly saving my affection for one woman only, the woman I plan to marry. When God brings that woman into my life, I pray I shall be found worthy of her love. That for having refrained from giving my love away to others. I might have an overflowing abundance to bestow upon her alone.

The idea of being trapped in the north for the winter had given Tessa pause for only a moment before she’d cast it aside. She was going on an adventure, she’d reminded herself. And adventures always had an element of danger in them. That’s what made them exciting.

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