Quotes from Beverly Lewis

We can trust the Savior even when we can't trust ourselves.

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

Trust in him at all times . . . pour out your heart before him.

The Lord God sees this here mess from on high.

No one's stuck anywhere unless they choose to be. The Lord God guides those who are moving forward.

It made no sense, but then, life was rather senseless most of the time.

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough. Not that I don't want to question. Ach, I surely do. But in the three years since Benuel's death, I've learned that peace comes with that kind of givin' up . . . and, not to boast, but my faith has grown because of it, too.

Worry leads to gray hair

These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. "Who a person is-how they conduct their lives-will influence a child for righteousness

I'm learning that it's not what comes our way that matters so much as it is how we react.

When all's said and done, it's people, not things, that bring the most joy.

rushed upstairs and slipped into new jeans and a hot-pink wool sweater with a white T underneath. Then I went into the bathroom to do my hair. I brushed it vigorously, then parted it down the middle and made two big braids, one on either side of my head. I finished the outfit off with a pretty beaded bracelet featuring every conceivable shade of pink. Perfect.

The People expected too much of the little English boy from Philly. Yet Nick had come back to the very folk who had failed to believe in him.

She stretched, relaxing in the comfortable bed as she recalled that Dawdi Jeremiah believed wholeheartedly that if a person would simply lie in bed for twenty minutes before rising, the day would go more smoothly.

A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you're tryin' to be.

I held the letter—a window to another world. Did I dare open it?

The power that brought Jesus Christ back from the grave is the same power that today can meet our every need—body, mind, and spirit.

I picked up the rose-colored sachet pillow on her bed. Hugging it against my flat chest, I breathed in its sweet fragrance. "I was very sassy on the phone. I'm sorry, Mom.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Patience is yet another virtue, one that grows stronger through the practice of waiting

Patience plays an enormous part in perseverance as we wait and trust for what is to come—what God has in store for those who worship Him.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.