Desire to rise up in defiance of a sibling’s low expectations? That was a feeling Cara could well understand.

He wanted to step away from the overtrodden pathways of thought that, painful as they were, had been too easy to follow again and again. It was, in short, a longing to begin anew.

The future was, as it always had been, in God’s hands. He would keep working, and he would keep praying for help and guidance.

They had formed a family from the bonds that mattered most—those of the heart.

We don’t always know why terrible things happen. We can only search for any good that can come from the bad. Whatever the situation, we can always seek the Lord’s help.

To win a soul would be more important than anything else she could do.

She knew many things about the physical body and that organ in the chest that pumped blood, but she knew so little about affairs of the heart.