“For there are no ordinary moments. There are only precious feelings and memories we piece together one by one. We call it a lifetime.~~ Riley Rosemont, from "Roses in Winter" by Leslie D. Stuart”

“Tomorrow will always be just a dream. Why do we waste so many good Today’s not seeing the beautiful moment God placed right in our hands?~~ Riley Rosemont, from "Roses in Winter" by Leslie D. Stuart”

“I often wonder how many prayers flooded the gates of Heaven that day. How many Christians, or otherwise, called on the Lord? How many Jews looked for the Almighty? How many others called, by whatever name, on the one true God? How many nonbelievers, if only for a moment, and if only to ask how this could happen, believed in Him and called on His name: "Jesus"?”

“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions. ”

“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived them. It's only a relatively few moments that we get to keep and carry with us for the rest of our lives. Those moments are our lives. Or maybe it's more like those moments are the dots in what we call our lives, or the lines we draw between them, connecting them into imaginary pictures of ourselves.”

“Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all.”

“When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.”