10 Quotes by Rhoda Janzen

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.

This was as true and sweet as ice cream in December. We each had our different priorities. If you held them lightly and used a plastic spoon they were nothing to get stuck on.

I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl," I said.

The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.

I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

An Americentric worldview, they believed, was incompatible with Christian values on the grounds that God loved all nations equally.

What I want to measure, what I can control, is my own response to life’s challenges.