Quotes from Linda Dillow

Waiting for the What Ifs of life, for what might happen, causes the sturdiest of hearts to be anxious.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.

If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

Faithfulness is God's standard! As His servants we are not required to be perfect or successful — simply faithful.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Isn't it comforting to know that God knew each of us before He created us? He planned what each of us would look like, who our parents would be, if and who we would marry, and how many children we would have. Before we could know God, He cared for us. He hid each of us away as a treasure until He brought us to be. God says that He fashioned each of us with awe and wonder.

One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

Yes... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ...about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. Forgiveness breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. While dying on the cross, Jesus said, "Forgive them" — the Roman soldiers, the religious leaders, his disciples who had fled in darkness, even you and me who have denied him so many times — "Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we're going to judge God by the circumstances we don't understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.

It's one thing to believe God can do something. It's quite another to put yourself in a position of reliant trust. This is the distinction between intellectual belief and wholehearted faith.

When does a woman become an adult? Perhaps it's when she stops comparing her life to other women's.