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“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”

“I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.”

“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”

“Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”

“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”

“… for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”

“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”

“Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance”

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

“I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"

"You are free. You just don't know it yet”

“Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”

“Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”

“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”

“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”

“Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.”

“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.”

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

“Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
--- Hadassah”

“We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.”

“The Lord will provide.”

“Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.”

“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”

“You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah”