Quotes from Jennifer Rothschild

I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.

Because God loves us, he tells us where we came from and who we are.

As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.

The difference between bitter and better is I.

Through God's grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn't empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace (favor, kindness, ability) to bear it.

William Bennett expressed it this way: "Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your

Even when it is not well with our circumstances, it can be well with our souls.

many women don't live like God's beloved. We don't internalize that His love has made us lovely. We don't rest in the reality that His sufficiency has made us good enough. We don't identify with our identity. We don't accept that God has accepted us.

Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty itself.

God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit of your struggle far outweighs the comfort you may experience from his rescue.

We are human beings, not human doings, aren't we, Gomer girl? Our identity is not based on what we do. It's based on what God did for us.

He sometimes allows something bad in our lives to prevent something far worse in our lives. That is a wondrous work of God I cannot even see, because sometimes I have no idea how God is working on my behalf.

But try not to let the "I" in iddiction speak too loudly, sweet Gomer girl. After all, "I" is smack-dab in the middle of lie. Instead, let your "I" be found where it should be—hidden in Chr-i-st!

God is just in the way he cares for each of his children. We can rest in his just, righteous, and merciful character.

If the isolation that accompanies blindness compels me to a deeper connection with God, I am the richer. All of us need to treasure anything within us that makes us feel just a little detached from the greater arena of human experience, for it may be the one thing that God mercifully gives us to tie us to Himself and fill our need to be known by Him.

Sometimes storms surround us, and the discordant sounds of our circumstances are so loud that they drown out the music. But deep inside us is a song that can rise from God's presence in our life. Even when the storm rages, our response can echo the melody of freedom within us.

Who I am and what I struggle with are not the same thing.

When rough things happen to us, it's as if they rip holes in the fabric of our faith, or what I sometimes call our "blanket of faith.

It was Scripture that I had hidden in my heart that quickly came to mind when my frustration felt stronger than my faith.