18 Quotes by Kim Vogel Sawyer

Being stubborn isn't a bad thing. Stubbornness could be defined as determination on steroids. As long as it's aimed in a God-honoring direction, being stubborn can be a gift because it gives you stick-to-itiveness.

Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.

Miss Grant, I don't know where you got the idea that men don't have deep feelings, but that's wrong. Oh, we might be better at hiding them. But we get sad and scared and doubtful, the same as anybody else. I can tell you I cried lots of sowing tears when my uncle died after I came to Spiveyville.~Mack Cleveland

Life is often unfair, and we cannot change it. We can only do our utmost to make the best of what we've been dealt and perhaps try to bring a little happiness into others' lives. Isn't that what the Bible advises--to love one's neighbor as oneself?

The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what’s comin’, an’ He knows what we need to be prepared for what’s comin’. So sometimes those things we face that we don’t understand – the things we think of as bad – are really for our good down the line.

When God looks at sin, what He sees is the harm it brings. People want to define some sins as big and others as little, but the truth is, Bud, every sin is equally bad in God’s eyes.

I don’t have the power to change anyone except myself, and even then I rely on God’s strength.

You stay up here for a while, cuddle ol’ Izzy-B – somethin’ soothin’ about runnin’ your hands over a purrin’ cat. An’ do some talkin’ with God.