10 Quotes by Pepper D. Basham

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.

I knew you were trouble the first time you looked over at me in school and said "Ain't you never learnt to spell?

God holds us. We are protected by His grip in such a precious way that the good and the bad must pass through His fingers to us. No harm, fear, or pain can reach us without His allowance, and yet, it is a loving grip. A loving allowance we cannot understand until time has frayed our pride and tempered our heartbreak. And even then, our only answer may be to trust His love more than our understanding.

The countryside stretched green and alive from her perch on the hill....She breathed in the air of a free woman and marveled at how her clarity of spirit even seemed to affect her vision. Brighter colors. Fresher air.

Pain is a lifelong fixture in a broken world, girl. All of us need strength from God to face hurts from inside.

Oh, what a beautiful child in the arms of a handsome man. She’d never seen anything on earth more endearing... even attractive. Was there anything on earth more attractive?

I’m going to be a princess that fights dragons. Ain’t no good to sit up in your tower and watch the prince have all the fun.

God restores lost things, you know.