“Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.”

“And sometimes, God asks us to wrestle with the unfamiliar until it becomes our new familiar. Until we can breathe freely in that new place.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”

“I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.”

“Prayer is prayer, regardless of where you are.”

“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”

“God," she said, her tone gently reproving, "brought Mr.Kensington to you, and with him, a world of potential. As I see it, each of our lives is a journey, Miss Cora. A path that takes us over the mountain or down through a dark valley. But He never abandons us. Never. That is how He cares for us - walking with us every step of the way.”